at dawn, at dusk: 2025 Juried Members Show

June 14 - august 30, 2025

juried BY anthony graham

EXHIBITING ARTISTS:

Peter Baczek, Megan Broughton, Andrew Catanese, Anamaya Farthing-Kohl, Heather Hardison, Xiao He, Graham Hyun, Julia Kerley, Rebekah Kim, Kathleen King, Gracianne Kirsch, Anne Krinsky, Marya Krogstad, Nivedita Madigubba, Margo Majewska, Lorena Molina, Hannah Moller, Stellarae Morris, Elaine T. Nguyen, Beril Or, Leyla Rzayeva, Jillian Shea, Ezra Teshome, Yue Xiang, and Peiyu Zhu.

OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, june 14, 3-5PM

closing reception: SATURDAY, august 30, 3-5 pm

public program: coming in august, more information soon.

curatorial statement

In the midst of transformation, when do we realize that one thing has become something else? How much does something need to change until it is completely new? If you replace every part on a ship, is it still the same ship? When the ground beneath us seems to shift at a rapid pace, news buzzing and one crisis follows the next, it becomes ever harder to pause and recognize what is happening from one moment to the next.

This year’s juried exhibition positions itself in the blurry edges between moments. At dawn, at dusk recognizes the cyclical nature in which endings and beginnings form an endless loop. Each day becomes night, each night becomes day. And while this might suggest a constant movement forward in time, the works in this exhibition focus on the capacities of stillness. They prompt us to think about how time might be better understood through its tendency to loop, stretch, and speed around us.

Many of the artists in this exhibition work through abstraction, layering materials onto one another so that color and form take up new shapes and alter our understandings or assumptions about an object’s materiality. Other works consider how they communicate meaning and the contingent ways in which a viewer might be able to engage with them based upon their context.  

Several works depict scenes that might be overlooked in the course of a day. These works confront a sense of nostalgia with a recognition of the importance of connecting with one another in even the most casual ways. Often enigmatic, these images bring out the imaginative possibilities of memory, forging relationships across time and intimacies across vast distances. So too do they picture the disquieting realities of our world, often imbued with affective charges we can’t quite explain.

Throughout this exhibition, there is a focus on the ways that our perception might be expanded. It also suggests that through a certain slowness we might better understand how one thing relates to another; how we relate to those around us; how the discrete pieces of our world come together into something whole.

How much light has to fill the night sky before it is officially day? Why is there still light out after the sun has set? When does one thing become another?

anthony graham

Anthony Graham is Senior Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, organizing exhibitions across the museum's program and working closely with the museum collection. His recent projects include solo exhibitions with Tanya Aguiñiga, Young Joon Kwak, and Griselda Rosas. He was previously Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, where he organized Alexis Smith: The American Way, the first exhibition and publication of the Los Angeles-based artist in thirty years. He has also organized solo exhibitions with Nancy Lupo and Sadie Barnette, the group exhibition Bound to the Earth: Art, Materiality, and the Natural World, and co-curated Being Here with You/Estando aquí contigo: 42 Artists from San Diego and Tijuana. His writing has been included in several exhibition catalogs and online journals including HereIn and the Los Angeles Review of Books.