`Divine Timing
​​​The passage of time is inescapable. Relationships shift, connections fade, and the material world inevitably succumbs to change and decay. In the face of this transience, human beings have long turned to art​ creating beauty as a means of defying impermanence, if only momentarily.
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Divine Timing: ARC Gallery in Deep Ellum Debuts Second Show
"Divine Timing is the second exhibition to hit the space. It's billed as an invitation for viewers to rethink time, not as a straight line, but as a loop, a collapse or a quiet transaction between memory, technology and the human experience. Exactly what that means is yet to be determined, but you can see for yourself"
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-`Simon Pruit
featured artists:
`Archive was created to mark the unseen transactions we make with time. I flipped the meaning of the familiar red gallery sticker—normally a signal of commercial success—but now signifying a moment of life sold, not for money, but for silence, for love, for survival, some stolen. The thread runs through all of us- invisibly, looping time into trauma, routine, and sacrifice. For time is our most valuable currency. We spend so freely, not realizing that we can never earn it back, until its too late.
`Bobby Miller x `Adriane McMillon
A collision of nostalgia, chaos, and imagination. The duo's collaborative painting "Chaos" is a portal. It suggests that time is not a clock. Time here isn’t linear—it’s an emotional experience: loud, fragmented, and impossible to contain, like trying to hold a dream still. It’s something we crash through, revisit, distort, or escape. Time, in this world, isn’t measured—it’s collided with.
`The Disappearing Self, Second Act is a video performance that explores how technology fragments our sense of self and time. Blending photography and painting, the piece invites viewers into an immersive space that resists digital overload and encourages slow, reflective presence. Drawing from phenomenology and her Andean roots, Vega offers a quiet rebellion against constant connectivity, proposing disappearance not as vanishing, but as a valid, partial form of being.
They say a watched pot never boils — but this watched clock never ticks. Using facial recognition technology, this timepiece senses when you’re looking at it, freezing its hands in place under your gaze. Only when you look away does it resume its quiet march forward. Time, in this piece, becomes performative — obedient, withheld, and elusive. The more you try to hold onto each moment, the more it slips away. In the act of observation, time stands still; in distraction, it escapes you.
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This self-portrait, entitled "Fleeting Moments," embodies the passage of time through aging. The fragmented digital aesthetic is a metaphor for our memories and experiences that are preserved and distorted over time. These moments, although fleeting and not guaranteed, shape our existence. This portrait remains a powerful reflection of the enduring human spirit and the beauty found in the passage of time.
A multi-disciplinary artist known for creating immersive, large-scale LED sculptures and fixtures that blend music, design, and programming, Ephram envelops viewers in vibrant, otherworldly environments. "Order of Time" is inspired by the philosopher Anaximander and a book by the physicist Carlo Rovelli, reflecting the principle that time passes differently at different attitudes.
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"I still owe you gas money from the time we totaled the car" is a 28-minute video projection that reconstructs the aftermath of a near-fatal car crash through slowed, mirrored 16mm footage and computer-generated frames. Blending memory and artifice, the piece becomes a meditation on trauma, displacement, and the strange in-betweenness of time after shock. It revisits the train ride Frickhoeffer took the day after the crash—alone, looping through the event in his mind. His work blurs the real and the constructed, inviting viewers to linger in moments where place and self unravel.
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`Jon Reed is a glass blower and steel sculptor.
His work explores the weight of time with a curious and often chaotic aesthetic.
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“When filled, this hourglass will drop one grain every hour for one hundred years. As I write this, there are 609,477 hours left.
My finest is among them.”
"Rewind" offers a quiet meditation on memory and time, using the familiar image of a cassette tape and pencil to evoke nostalgia, reflection, and the cyclical nature of experience. With a minimalist approach, the piece suggests that the past is never far—that we carry it with us, reshaping it with each return. Rooted in Pacius’s interest in the human condition, this piece centers on emotional resonance, inviting viewers to pause and revisit what still lingers.
In wooden sculpture piece "Human Rise" and multi-media photography-based pice "Beyond Time," Pasha Mad invites viewers into a space where ancient echoes meet futuristic form. "Human Rise" honors the invisible lineage behind human progress—suggesting that every ascent is a shared act of resilience passed through generations. "Beyond Time" delves into the paradox of identity and presence, presenting a fractured yet watchful figure that exists both within and outside of time. Using a mix of media and craftsmanship, Pasha’s work offers meditations on memory, transformation, and the enduring spirit of humanity.
Veronica Young’s In the Meantime is a looping digital installation that reflects the repetitive, screen-driven rituals of modern life—moments that feel like progress but lead nowhere. Through subtle humor and discomfort, it invites viewers to question how we lose time in endless cycles of digital distraction and whether we’re truly moving forward.
`Jessica Waffles x `James Maker
Time is like a fast-moving river; moments come and go, flowing into the great sea of us all. You never walk through the same river twice, and the same is true about moments in time. "Waterfall" is a 6ft tall photographic sculpture made of vellum paper, polyurethane and resin. The streams are layered, even covered in some parts; in life, you can never see or understand every person’s memories and lived past.
Bella Tylen’s ceramic works are deeply personal vessels of memory, lineage, and reverence for her Polish ancestry. Through pieces like Rozeta dla Babci, Przez żoÅ‚Ä…dek do serca, and The Remembrance Vessel, she honors the women who came before her—celebrating their strength, traditions, and quiet endurance. Each form incorporates symbolic materials like glazed stoneware, red silk ribbon, water, and flame to embody themes of protection, joy, and remembrance. Rooted in ritual and shaped by hand, Tylen’s art transforms personal and cultural memory into sacred, enduring objects that echo through time.
`Kairosphere explores time as a dense and nonlinear force, rendered through bold black and white contrasts that symbolize the interplay between memory and oblivion. Using relief print on fabric and a handmade driftwood frame, the piece reflects his deeply personal perception of time—fluid, emotional, and profound. Rooted in his Peruvian heritage and shaped by over eight years of printmaking experience, Braulio’s work invites viewers into a contemplative dialogue. His art is both a tribute to ancestral wisdom and a call for collective reflection, aiming to inspire connection, cultural appreciation, and social awareness.
