Please join Sarah Shepard Gallery to celebrate the opening of Time and Place, a two-person exhibition featuring recent works by Bay Area artists Blake Aaseby and Dwight Eschliman, on Thursday, March 5, 2026.
Aaseby and Eschliman both explore mark-making, geographical documentation, and the passage of time in their respective mediums of drawing and photography. Eschliman’s One Day series celebrates geospecific documentation of time and its transitions, while Aaseby’s work aims to ground itself in a more liminal, mental landscape. Aaseby textile-inspired drawings—made with pastel on Crescent Select Mount Board on wood panel—rely on rhythm, pattern, and methodical mark-making to “map the intricate stages and types of memory.” His work navigates the fluid relationship between place and memory, using a combination of drawing, painting, and storytelling to create works that invite viewers on a journey through both physical and mental landscapes. Individual and collective narratives are present in each piece. Time and Place also features six works from Eschliman’s One Day project, an exercise in cataloging a specific unit of time, whether it be one day or one hour. One Day’s depiction of all 86,400 seconds of a 24-hour period both abstracts the day and reinterprets it. Always turning to the sky, Eschliman documents shifting light and color. Clouds, sunrises, sunsets, and the occasional bird or airplane are captured in square images that are subsequently organized chronologically. The assembled photographic pieces reimagine a space that is both geographically static and visually variable, offering a distinctive portrait of time and place. One Day captures a singular moment of time while also putting it into motion, frame-by-frame. While some of Eschliman’s subjects are local to the Bay Area—Mill Valley or San Francisco—those included in Time and Place are primarily from farther edges of the world: New Zealand, Norway and Brazil. Each pixel of sky, stamped side by side, also inherently records Eschliman’s travels to these locations.
In Time and Place, Aaseby and Eschliman document the passage of time in two different formats: drawing and photography. For both artists, pixilation and patchwork are essential strategies for their composite imagery, which create larger decorative and functional studies of the intersection of time and place. Their methodical yet nostalgic work invites viewers to recall their own memories of place and their own methods of keeping time.
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