Lyles and King is pleased to present a group exhibition, Tomorrow is already behind us, opening Friday, January 17, 6-8pm.

To reflect on the complexities of one’s contemporary experience is to question what it is to be known, what it is to be seen, the passage of time. Tomorrow is already behind us brings together artists whose practices push their respective boundaries of painting, sculpture, and new media. They reach into the crevices between memory, history, and time to explore these themes through symbolic imagery and motifs that bridge the past, present, and future. Motifs and symbols arise, defining the conditions of the present whether personal or universal. Knowledge culled from an unknowable past is compounded in the here and now.

Horses gallop across the dark recesses of the Lascaux Caves, carrying themselves through thousands of years into the current cultural conversation. Invisible to most, they and their makers continue to intrigue: we may ask how, when, why? Separated by geography, language, and technology, they remain legible. These ancient horses, strong and insistent, hold more power than they will ever comprehend.

Time abstractly flows forward, our moon orbits around us without care for the planet to which it is tethered. Each moment builds upon the last—an accrual of each infinitesimal action. Each moment is the brick and mortar of ancestral knowledge, foundations laid by those long faded from memory, but whose stories, crafts, recipes, and objects may remain, as indifferent to us as our glowing moon.

The exploration of identity is a defining attribute of our present cultural landscape which one day may transcend specificity. Future relics. Shifting winds. Time itself is both the medium and the message, offering a dialogue between the temporal and the eternal.