August 8 – December 6, 2026
Interactive Gallery
Time Changes Everything : Five Artists, Five Voices

Darcy Gerbarg: The Dimensional Field

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.

Darcy Gerbarg: The Dimensional Field

Darcy Gerbarg is a pioneer of digital art and a third-generation abstract expressionist. She works within an immersive virtual environment, surrounding herself with luminous, weightless brushstrokes of pure color, then capturing that field from multiple angles before capturing fragments back onto print. Her practice fulfills an old modernist dream: where the Cubists once imagined a fourth dimension beyond the flat picture plane, Gerbarg actually enters it, moving her body through a space the eye alone cannot hold. Each finished work is the record of a gesture performed in time, the fourth dimension made visible. In this, Gerbarg extends a lineage central to the Leepa Rattner Museum of Art: like Rattner, whose own Cubist roots gave way to a mastery of color that culminated in radiant works of stained glass, she is fundamentally a painter of light, translating its energy across a new dimensional threshold, and reminding us that even the most ancient artistic questions find fresh answers as time, and technology, move forward.

Darcy Gerbarg has been making art with computers since 1979. Classically trained at the New York Studio School, she taught the first computer art course for artists in the New York metro area, launched and directed the first SIGGRAPH Art Shows, and founded the world’s first MFA program in Computer Art at the School of Visual Arts. Her work is held in museum, corporate, and private collections and has been exhibited internationally.

Image credit: Darcy Gerbarg, Twilight, 2018. AI-animated video. On loan from the artist.