For later career artists, age 65+. June 4 through July 31, 2027. Up to $3500 in awards. Centered on artists who have sustained their practices beyond the age of 65, the exhibition understands duration not as decline, but as density. These artists work within time as material: accumulating, shedding, returning. Their practices reveal that experience does not resolve into clarity—it deepens complexity. In this space, time is not measured chronologically but sensorially and ethically: in attention, in repetition, in the courage to remain present. The exhibition becomes a field of simultaneity, where works encounter one another like currents—overlapping, resisting, and briefly joining. How to Hold Time takes its conceptual ground from Pablo Neruda’s vision of time as two opposing currents: one carrying the weight of all that has been lived, the other exposing the unfolding present. For a fleeting instant, these currents meet—and it is within that charged convergence that this exhibition exists. The works gathered here do not attempt to illustrate Neruda’s poem. Instead, they inhabit its condition. Each piece occupies the fragile interval where memory and immediacy collide—where time is not linear, but folded, layered, and alive. Artists should engage with time as described by Pablo Neruda in one of his Elemental Odes, not as a linear passage, but as a meeting of forces:
