Philip Martin Gallery is pleased to present Time's arrow, an exhibition of works by Katy Cowan, Tomory Dodge, Tim Garwood, Rema Ghuloum, Pamela Jorden and Christy Matson. There will be a summer party for the artists Saturday, August 9 from 5-8pm.

The exhibition takes its title from Martin Amis's novel, Time's arrow. The show considers abstraction in painting and sculpture as means by which to consider individuality and interiority in the 21st century. At a moment of profound social upheaval and technological change, abstraction in these artists' works offers a means for maker and viewer alike to consider the assumptions behind the objective, the subjective and the non-objective.

Of different generations and backgrounds, the six artists in Time's arrow work with a variety of materials, including paint and canvas, cast metal, found material and fibers. Katy Cowan works with both the indexical and the iconic, crafting hand-painted, wall-mounted and freestanding sculptures that have been described as a "painter's approach to conceptual sculpture." Tomory Dodge's large-format paintings build a push-pull sense of figure/ground via tool-driven, gestural abstract mark-making and deep pictorial space. Tim Garwood's works consider abstraction through landscape painting, evoking not just what nature looks like, but also what it feels like. A Reiki practitioner, Rema Ghuloum moves energy in her works, building a sense of atmosphere in layers of paint applied with squeeze and spray bottles over which she applies delicate brushwork. Pamela Jorden applies paint in directed flows, allowing the paint to move across the canvas and interact materially to create shape, color, line and texture. Christy Matson uses a Jacquard loom to develop abstract compositions based on the landscape of California and other places figured in the warp and weft of textile production.