June 27 – December 6, 2026
Lothar and Mildred Uhl Works on Paper Gallery
Time Changes Everything : Five Artists, Five Voices
Esther Gentle: The Propagated Image
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.
Esther Gentle: The Propagated Image
Esther Gentle (1899–1991) spent her career in the business of making one image into many. A sculptor, painter, printmaker, and gallery owner, she worked at a moment when American artists were rethinking what it meant to reproduce a work of art. Could a copy carry the spirit of an original?
Her tools were physical and demanding. In silkscreen printing, the method most associated with her, ink is pushed by hand through a mesh screen, with each color requiring its own separate screen and its own careful pass. The painterly, layered quality this produced made it ideal for translating modern art into prints that ordinary people could afford to own. Every print was pulled by hand, and small variations from one to the next were simply part of the process.
This exhibition features Gentle’s print collaborations with modern masters including Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, Lionel Feininger, Henry Moore, and Abraham Rattner.
Image credit: Abraham Rattner, April Showers, 1970-1971, silkscreen and oil on canvas, Esther Gentle Workshop, 22 1/8 x 27 ½ in. LRMA Collection, 1997.3.4.4