Alicia Eggert: At a Time Like This

Opening reception Wednesday, February 26, 6–8pm

Alicia Eggert is a multimedia artist whose practice explores the potency of poetic language through time-based installations. Utilizing vernacular media such as commercial signage and neon, Eggert facilitates public engagement while calling attention to one's place in the world and the passage of time to elicit philosophical contemplation. At a Time Like This is the first New York exhibition of Eggert’s work, and features the latest iteration of Your Magic is Real, a room-sized immersive installation that is both an exuberant celebration of the power of collaboration and a stark reminder (when it goes dark) of the consequences of division and alienation. To create the work, Eggert collaborated with James Akers, and the music was composed by Marco Buongiorno Nardelli.

The adjacent wall-based neon work All the Light You See (Infinity) cultivates awareness of the fleeting nature of time, underscoring the necessity of human connection. Inspired by physics and philosophy, Eggert’s sculptures give material form to language and chronology across a variety of mediums, and deal with subjects as diverse as temporal self-awareness or reproductive rights. In this exhibition, as in all of Eggert’s poetic provocations, the artist seeks to wake us from the soporific effects of the constant flood of information on our phones, to look up from the glow of our tiny screens, and to shift our attention to poignant truths about existence writ large.

About the Artist

Alicia Eggert (American, b. 1981) is Associate Professor of Studio Art at University of North Texas who has exhibited widely, both at major institutions and in public spaces. Her first solo museum exhibition opened at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas in April 2024, while her 2022 collaboration with Planned Parenthood, a neon sculpture titled OURs, which was temporarily installed in front of the US Supreme Court, was featured in the Summer 2023 issue of Gagosian Quarterly.

About the Collaborators

James Akers is an artist, educator,and commercial neon bender is currently based in Brooklyn, New York where he runs a neon fabrication company called Nebula Neon with his partner, Ali Feeney.

Marco Buongiorno Nardelli is a Professor of Physics, Chemistry, and Composition Studies at the University of North Texas.

About the Curator

Andrew Page is Editor of Glass: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly, the magazine of record for art and design in glass, as well as an author and frequent lecturer. He is the founder of the biennial UrbanGlass Academic Symposium, and organized and operated the international conference from 2013 - 2019.

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Class Schedule

• February 26th – May 5th, 2025