Michael Stern: Imprinted Time

Opening Reception July 8, from 6-8 PM.

Fatherhood is an experience of time travel. Moving forward and backward at once -- walking through time with your child as they move through the world while imagining how you once moved through it. Reaching into the past, excavating stored gestures you didn't know were there: the way you were held, the way time stretched and collapsed in the small rooms of childhood. It is not just witnessing a child grow; it is feeling time bend, layer, repeat.

Glass holds this same logic. It carries its past -- every heat, every touch, every stretch stays within its form. It is a record, a body full of movement. Imprinted Time invites the viewer into that compression -- object and person, past and present, held together in material that remembers.

About the Artist:

Michael Stern is an artist, designer, engineer, and scientist whose practice finds power through the synthesis of disciplines. He co-invented the world's first molten glass 3D printer at MIT, where he earned his BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering. In 2022 he founded Evenline, a studio working at the intersection of computational design, machine fabrication, and traditional glassmaking. He holds four patents and has published nine peer-reviewed papers. His work has been exhibited in museums internationally, including the Cooper-Hewitt, MoMA, Fuller Craft Museum, Toledo Museum of Art, and the MIT Museum. He is Professor of Practice at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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