Time, Truth, and Other Immeasurables opens Fri, Sep 11. Image: L, 03 49 09.7, +24 03 12, 2017. Airbrushed pigment on canvas. Collection of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Church History Museum.
September 11, 2026–June 5, 2027
Time, Truth, and Other Immeasurables explores dimensions of experience that resist calculation. Although humans have created frameworks to define these experiences, they cannot fully capture how we exist within them. These forces shape our lives yet remain unquantifiable: time, truth, vastness, spirituality, deep time, and history as it unfolds in the moment.
This exhibition delves into artists whose work explores the existential nature of these immeasurables. Time seems to speed up as we age. Truth unfolds gradually, influenced by memory, belief, and subjective and personal experience. Vastness is not only spatial; it is also experienced through feelings of the infinite and the sublime. Spirituality emerges in quiet gestures and moments of contemplative stillness. Geological age is represented through layered materials and slow processes.
In an era driven by speed, data, and measurable outcomes, Time, Truth, and Other Immeasurables invites us to embrace the often felt but rarely articulated ethereal. It encourages viewers to reflect on what cannot be quantified, yet profoundly shapes our existence—the unseen, the enduring, the infinite, the immeasurable.
Supported by Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Art Bridges Foundation; Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts & Parks Program; Utah Division of Arts & Museums; Lawrence T. & Janet T. Dee Foundation; Brad & Jan Metcalf
Shirin Abedinirad
John Bell
Dawoud Bey
Paul Crow
Tacita Dean
Andy Goldsworthy
Michael Handley
Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler
Beth Krensky
William Lamson
Stefan Lesueur
Ron Linn
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Katie Paterson
James Perkins
Martha Rosler
Sho Shibuya
Robert Smithson
Hank Willis Thomas
Bill Viola
Kara Walker
Suyi Xu