Maggie Stark
Keeping Time

Keeping Time, structures of time during a fluid year, is a mixed media installation, which includes video, digital images, and sculpture all made during 2020. The 366 days of this calendar year sparked an investigation into various pictorial configurations of time. Searching for stability in the face of uncertainty, I was drawn to the standardized markings of time. Delineating days and months, hours and minutes became a way of measuring the immeasurable. I began notating the waxing and waning of light during the 24-hour cycle as a way of syncing my sense of temporality with that of the solar system. The works in this show attempt to address the particular tension and alchemy that arises between what is knowable and quantifiable and what is not.
Maggie Stark, December 2020

01. Solar Calendar 2020 (1-12), 2020
archival ink on clear acrylic with mirror backing, 16 foot shelf, 5 x 7 inches and 6 x 7 inches, $8500.00

02. Cemetery (water station), 2020
2 minute video loop, digital screen, POR

03. Metronome, 2020
9 min video loop, HD digital screen, POR

04. Solar Gradation 2020 (#2), 2020
acrylic paint, wood, magnets, steel-plate and plexiglass, 24 x 84.5 inches, $8000.00

05. April 2020, 2020
archival digital print on clear acrylic with mirror backing, 8 foot shelf, 5 x 7 inches, $600.00 (individual), $4600.00 (complete set)

06. Structures of Time 2020, 2020
3 metronomes, NFS

07. Solar Gradation 2020 (#1), 2020
acrylic paint, wood, magnets and steel-plate, 13.5 x 42 inches, $3500.00

08. Waterway, 2020
5 min video loop, HD digital screen, POR

09. Calendar 2020, 2020
wood, clear acrylic and latex paint, 20 x 60 inch shelf, 5 x 7 inches and 6 x 7 inches, $5000.00