The authority on word definitions, Urban Dictionary, describes ‘island time’ as “The time vacuum created by the ocean's presence. Similar to stoner's time, everything moves nice and slow,” a type of pace you wouldn’t expect to find in a city as bustling as New York. But you will, as of tomorrow, as curator and photographer Morgan Maher’s exhibition Island Time kicks open its doors. “I wanted to create a show that took a step back to say ‘woah, reality hang ten for a second’,” she tells us. “The idea was sparked through the the fleetingness of extreme emotional and psychological highs and lows that can be experienced through such a short amount of time.”
Featuring works from Amanda McGowan, Grace Ahlbom, David Moses, Ian Lewandowski and Art Baby Gallery founder Grace Miceli, to name a very few, Maher says, “Visually, the island time concept is explored from intimate portraits to video work where at first glance it looks like a utopian desire yet as you look harder it reveals not everything is relaxed or pure.” Hosting a mixture of ceramics, digital art, photography and illustration, she adds, “The piece from Jimmy Tagliaferri is extremely fitting, he’s created a beautiful portrait of this girl printed on vinyl smooshed into a frame – making it look as if the girl is reacting to being squished. Caroline David’s piece takes a different approach. Her illustration examines struggles and hardships, but ultimately serves as a testament to the balance of love and life. A lot of the work is chaotic and crazy in the most beautiful way.”
Island Time launches in New York tomorrow, 3 September 2015, at Rabbit Hole Gallery, for more information and for the full list of artists exhibiting, click here
