Louise Bourgeois, The Mirror, 1998, cast and polished aluminum, 94 x 34 1/2 x 44 inches, photo: Christopher Burke/Courtesy Bourgeois Studio, New York

Mirror Tenses
Conflating Time and Presence
Saturday, September 13 - Friday, December 12, 2003  

Mirrors have long been symbols of vanitas -- the mortality and folly of humans --, have served as portals to other worlds of existence, or as omniscient objects with the power of speech and future-sight. Mirror Tenses presents a selection of works by eight artists that focus on the interactive loop that can occur between the spectator/scene and the reflective surface thus highlighting a conceptually never-ending and always present moment. Artists included in the exhibition are Louise Bourgeois, Joan Jonas, John Kalymnios, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Bruce Nauman, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Seton Smith, and Valeska Soares.