August 8 – December 6, 2026
James W. Mitchell, Jr., Gallery South
Time Changes Everything : Five Artists, Five Voices
Beth Bischoff : The Pictorial Earth
Time Changes Everything brings together five artists whose work, across generations and media, contends with the one force none of us escapes: the passage of time. First conceived as an experimental group exhibition in 2019, Time Changes Everything has since grown into an ongoing educational project. Bringing together artists from all walks of life and engaging students at the academic museums where it has been shown, the project invites collaboration around a shared theme: how art registers our anxieties, revolutions, and evolving visual language across mediums. From the ruins of ancient civilizations to the fossils of our own consumption, from the immersive frontier of virtual space to the quiet renewal that follows loss, these five voices trace how time shapes, erodes, and remakes the world around us. The exhibition season finds its root in Esther Gentle—sculptor, painter, and printmaker, and a foundational figure in this museum’s own history—and extends outward to four contemporary artists whose practices carry her spirit of inquiry into the present moment. Together, Gentle, Beth Bischoff, Darcy Gerbarg, Margie Hughto and Babs Reingold remind us that art is itself a way of marking time: a means of holding, however briefly, what time is always carrying away.
Beth Bischoff : The Pictorial Earth
Through large-scale black-and-white photographs of ancient ruins and vulnerable human figures, Beth Bischoff explores the thin line between civilization and collapse. Shot across the Yucatán Peninsula and the Caribbean, her images stage humanity as a temporary presence within a far larger ecological cycle, where roots reclaim stone and the natural world quietly outlasts the works of human hands.
Beth Bischoff studied art and photography before beginning her career as a fashion photographer in Paris, Italy, Germany, and Scandinavia. In 1988 she moved to New York City, opening a studio in Soho and working for clients including Condé Nast, Bloomingdale’s, Random House, and Oprah Magazine. It was during her early travels that she began her fine art landscape series, and in 2012 she started spending several months each year based in Mérida, Mexico, where visits to the surrounding Maya ruins gave rise to the Yucatán work. Bischoff shoots primarily with black-and-white film, later digitizing and printing her images on fine art paper. Drawn to the pictorialist tradition of photographers such as Anne Brigman and Edward Steichen, she brings a painterly, meditative quality to her images.
Image credit: Beth Bischoff, St. Tropez, 2017. Archival pigment print, 30 × 20 in. (framed 36 × 26 in.). On loan from the artist.