Just in time for 2025 Reunions: a pop-up art exhibit featuring the work of four alumni artists: Martha Russo '85, Mark Sheinkman '85, Kalliopi Monoyios '00, and Jon Levy-Warren '05. Catch the exhibit at the CoLab Gallery on the 1st floor of the Lewis Center for the Arts the week of reunions, Tuesday May 20 - Sunday May 25, 2025.

Inspired by a quote by Betye Saar, "live it up, mañana never comes," this exhibit ties together the work of these four artists in a meditation on time as they celebrate milestone reunions. It explores how we can make sense of the passing of time despite being perpetually locked in the present moment.

From the Curator:
Our lives accrue second by second. We string seconds into minutes and then hours, the accumulation of which adds up to a life lived. Present in each moment, we look back and marvel at the time that’s passed, unable to process the billions of seconds we witnessed. Instead, the markers we erected—our memories—define a story with a hero, some hardship, some triumph and, ideally, meaning. Mañana never comes because we live perpetually in “today.” Yet we can dream of the future and recall the past.

The artists in this exhibition play the tension between the totality of the present moment and the markers we use to make sense of time and the human experience. Jon Levy-Warren ‘05 is concerned with the personal and granular, depicting characters who move in freeze-frame through his canvases, accruing the moments that create lasting relationships. Kalliopi Monoyios ‘00 adopts the objectivity of an academic, charting how tiny daily decisions add up to global pollution problems as she collects and documents single-use plastic. Martha Russo ‘85 tackles timelines that transcend the limits of what our senses can directly process to suggest larger stories of accumulation and ossification over millennia. And Mark Sheinkman ‘85 looks to the abstract and ephemeral, exploring the contours of human emotion and feeling through his monochromatic fields interrupted by dancing lines. All explore how we escape the confines of “now” to create meaning. They remind us that every moment presents us the opportunity to create a marker that will define the arcs of our narratives. Live it up, today and everyday, and leave a story worth telling.

• When?

  • Tuesday May 20 - Sunday May 25, 2025
    Artists' Reception Friday May 23 at 1pm EDT

• Where?

  • CoLab Gallery, 1st Floor of the Lewis Center for the Arts, 122 Alexander St., Princeton, NJ 80544