Opening: Out of Time: Imagining the Future of America

Out of Time: Imagining the Future of America is the third and final exhibition in Union Hall’s 2025 Rough Gems Curatorial Program series. Join us for the free, public opening reception on March 27 from 6 – 8 pm.

Time, as we know it, is an imposed structure—measured, quantified, and weaponized. Yet, for those whose histories have been fragmented, erased, or rewritten, time is something to be reclaimed, stretched, and reconfigured. Out of Time: Imagining the Future of America is an exhibition that interrogates temporal dislocation, mythic memory, and speculative futures through photography, painting, and sculpture. It explores how artists resist the linear constraints of Western historiography, instead forging cyclical, nonlinear, and parallel dimensions of time that shape identity, belonging, and nationhood.

Curated by J. Benjamin Burney, Out of Time featured artists include: Aurora Adams, LEANA, Kaylee Bender, monaeism, Sergio Noé Perez Reyes, and yvens Alex saintil.

For one night only during the opening reception, curator J. Benjamin Burney will facilitate an interactive photo booth titled The Future Archive. Visitors can participate by inscribing their thoughts on the future of America while being photographed. Through text and image, this activation explores individuality, identity, memory, and values in our era. Portraits and writings will be collected to form a digital catalog, capturing a snapshot of our present and revealing the diverse experiences shaping America’s future.

Out of Time will be on view through April 19, 2025. Union Hall’s gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 12 – 6 pm. Learn more at UnionHallDenver.org.