Are You Here?

March 19 - June 13, 2016 - This exhibition is essentially a mindfulness practice with a sense of humor. The billboards depicted in Gitelson’s photographs ask travelers barreling down roads both to locate themselves in time and place and to consider, however fleetingly, the implications of being present. It is meditation without a yoga mat or a pew.

That still photographs of the philosophically provocative billboard are displayed inside a museum pushes the concept even further. The photos urge us to look more carefully, consider more deeply, reflect more fully on the objects of contemplation before us, and on our thoughts and feelings about them.