Reception for 'Time' exhibit to be held at Walkers' Gallery Friday

The public is invited to the artists’ reception for the current exhibit “Time” at the Walkers’ Gallery, this Friday, July 26, 5-7 p.m.

It seems likely that there are more quotes referring to “time” than to any other construct in the known universe. From the mundane to the fantastic, the so called “4th Dimension” affects everyone and everything — all the time.  

Area artists submitted a dynamic range of responses to the Walkers’ Gallery’s call for art inspired by the theme of “Time.” The work spans the instant to the infinite, the personal to the universal, touches on the mathematical and ventures into the spiritual and surreal.

As common as time is, it inspires the uncommon, evokes a multitude of metaphors and “waits for no one.” While mathematics and physics may have time’s numbers, poetry and music, aspiring to transcend dimensional limitations, may come closest to the emotive language of time.  

At Friday’s reception four poets will read from their work: Kathleen Peirce, Diann McCabe, Debangana Banerjee and Octavio Quintanilla.  All four poets are also visual artists. 

Kathleen Peirce has four collections of her poetry in print and has received multiple awards including the Iowa Poetry Prize, the William Carlos Williams Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and more.  A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she currently teaches in the MFA writers program at Texas State University. 

Diann McCabe has an MFA in poetry from Texas State University and is recently retired from serving 20 years as assistant director of the Texas State Honors Program where one of the courses she taught was on teaching poetry in the schools, another on walking. She has received multiple recognitions both at Texas State University and in the City of San Marcos for her community service.

Debangana Banerjee was born and raised in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India and lived there until she came to Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 2006. Debangana received her MFA from Visva-Bharati University and her second MFA in printmaking from Louisiana State University. She and her husband moved to San Marcos in 2011 where she has become an active participant in community art and poetry ventures. In 2014 she published the chapbook, “Come back river." 

"Moon Tide" by Austin artist Sabrina Laumer.

Octavio Quintanilla is the 2018-2019 Poet Laureate of San Antonio. Quintanilla teaches literature and creative writing in the MFA program at Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio. Since Jan. 1 he has been writing a poem every day with a  piece of artwork, as a way of committing himself more fully to his own art, and, he says  to stop making excuses of why he was not producing work,  which often had to do with the lack of time. Quintanilla’s presentation will speak to “The Creative Imagination: Time and Process.”

Music for the event will be by Patrick McCurry, and light refreshments will be served. The exhibit will be on display through Friday, Aug. 16.

Art Exhibits at the Walkers’ Gallery are sponsored by the San Marcos Area Arts Council and the City of San Marcos with support from the San Marcos Arts Commission.