Time Out of Time
Solo Exhibition | Nüart Gallery, Los Angeles |2026
Across sculpture, painting, sound, and time-based installation, Time Out of Time considers how time is measured, experienced, and preserved within material. From fragments of mica and coal to a working clepsydra—an ancient form of water clock, Greek for “water thief”—these works bring vastly different scales of time into proximity, inviting a renewed consideration of the present moment. I am interested in the layered and contradictory forms of time: clock time, cosmic time, calendrical time, geological time, and the warping of time we experience through memories, objects, and places.
Installation Views
“The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age. For every phase of its development the clock is both the outstanding fact and the typical symbol of the machine: even today no other machine is so ubiquitous.”
—Lewis Mumford
Technics and Civilization (1934)
Selected Works
William T. Carson
Kairos, 2026
Coal and mica on wood
48 × 184 inches total
Three panels: 48 × 60 inches each
William T. Carson
Correction Section I, II, and III, 2026
Coal and mica on wood
60 × 48 inches each
William T. Carson
O’ Clock, 2026
Coal and mica on wood
60 × 48 inches
“We set our states of consciousness side by side in such a way as to perceive them simultaneously, no longer in one another, but alongside one another; in a word, we project time into space.”
—Henri Bergson
Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data
of Consciousness (1899)
William T. Carson
Chronos I-XII, 2026
Coal and mica on wood
22 × 360 inches total
Twelve panels: 22 × 22 inches each
“When one thinks of time, not as a sequence of experiences, but as a collection of hours, minutes, and seconds, the habits of adding time and saving time come into existence. Time took on the character of an enclosed space: it could be divided, it could be filled up, it could even be expanded by the invention of labor-saving instruments.
Abstract time became the new medium of existence.”
—Lewis Mumford
Technics and Civilization (1934)
Exhibition Video
Courtesy Haroon Noori @exhibition.shots