Marking Time

For “Marking Time,” Alan Klawans delves into his extensive archive of travel photographs, transforming the familiar into something new. While his past work has focused on everyday details like manhole covers and street signage, this exhibition highlights his evocative photographic “portraits” of flowers, each with stylized coloration and cropping, offering a unique reflection on memory and the passage of time.

Andrew Werth, on the other hand, marks time through a meditative process, meticulously filling his canvases with thousands of hand-painted, intricate curves. His abstract acrylic paintings, often created while focusing on his breath or music, achieve remarkable luminosity and depth through subtle color transitions. Drawing on his background as a software developer, Werth's paintings for this exhibition include mathematical elements such as tessellations, tilings, mandalas, and other geometric configurations.

Alan Klawans has been with Artists’ Gallery since 2000 and has exhibited his prints at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Print Center of Philadelphia. Prior to becoming a full-time artist, he worked as a graphic designer, printmaker, and art director.

Andrew Werth has exhibited regularly throughout New Jersey, New York, and Philadelphia for more than twenty years. He has formal degrees in computer engineering and information networking from Carnegie Mellon University and later self-directed an arts education from many of the arts institutions in New York City (including the School of Visual Arts, The New School, and the Art Students League).