Stephen Kaltenbach @ VERGE / What Death Does: Time, Scale and Anonymity

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What Death Does: Time, Scale and Anonymity
Stephen Kaltenbach
June 10 – September 17, 2023
reception: Saturday, June 10th 5PM-8PM
artist talk: Saturday, July 22nd at 2PM

WHAT DEATH DOES opens at Verge:
Verge Center for the Arts is pleased to announce our second solo exhibition by artist Stephen Kaltenbach. This show brings together several different bodies of work and modes of making from Kaltenbach’s more than 55-year career.

The exhibition will focus on his career-long interest in time and scale. The centerpiece of the show is What Death Does, a stage set of a furnished living room. Throughout the run of the exhibition, simulated rain falls into the room. Decay sets in at an accelerated pace with the aid of manufactured precipitation. Geological time becomes heightened and condensed into theatrical entropy. Deep time becomes visible through human perception. Witness the beginning of this phenomena at our 2nd Saturday Reception from 5-8PM; and return to the gallery through September 17th to behold the transformation of this piece!

There will be a an artist talk on Saturday, July 22, 2PM

This exhibition is made possible by generous support from the Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation.

Kaltenbach’s work has recently been the subject of a solo presentation at Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany. His works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento CA.

This exhibition is made possible by generous support from the Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation.

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