This fall, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar presents Chronostasia: Select Acquisitions 2020–2025, an exhibition that brings together more than sixty works acquired over the past five years. Opening Thursday, September 4 with a 4:30 p.m. reception in the Loeb atrium, followed by a 5:30 p.m. conversation with artist Sky Hopinka, scholar Molly McGlennen, and curator Alyx Raz, the exhibition explores time as both subject and framework across four thematic galleries. The exhibition will close on Sunday, February 1, 2026.

“Chronostasia offers fascinating perspectives on a wide array of works of art that span time periods, geographical boundaries, and traditional media designations,” said T. Barton Thurber, the Anne Hendricks Bass Director of the Loeb. “Many of these acquisitions broaden the museum’s holdings and reflect our commitment to expanding representation and rethinking the terms of inquiry.”

The title refers to chronostasis, a perceptual illusion in which time appears to slow after one’s attention shifts. In Chronostasia, time is extended and recirculated across four galleries: Anastasis gathers works that adopt visual languages of antiquity to recast tradition; Genealogies traces layered inheritance; Kinestasis focuses on suspended motion; and Chronologies examines time through iteration and return. The exhibition includes works by Jasper Johns, Cecilia Vicuña, Andrea Carlson, Dorothea Tanning, Guerrilla Girls, Sky Hopinka, Yves Klein, and Chris Marker among others acquired in the past five years.

“What’s striking about these acquisitions is how they resist linear narratives. They reveal how a collection becomes a living thing—where works actively reshape how we meet time itself and open avenues for scholarly and creative exploration,” said Alyx Raz, Assistant Curator.

Some works revisit the past—adapting its forms and disrupting its logics—while others move beyond chronology, bringing archives to light, bridging past and present, and scaling time in new ways. The exhibition features pieces acquired through gifts, bequests, purchases, and innovative collaborations, many made possible through the generosity of donors, including the Advisory Council for Photography.

Chronostasia: Select Acquisitions 2020–2025 is organized by Alyx Raz, Assistant Curator, and generously supported by the Evelyn B. Metzger Exhibition Fund.

Opening Program

Thursday, September 4, 2025
4:30 p.m. | Reception, Loeb Atrium and Galleries
5:30 p.m. | Conversation with artist Sky Hopinka, scholar Molly McGlennen, and curator Alyx Raz (Taylor Hall 102)

Additional Programs

• Screening of Sky Woman Women — Thursday, September 18, 5:30–7:00 p.m., Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film. Co-sponsored by the Loeb and Vassar’s Film Department.
• Rothko in Conversation — Thursday, November 13, 5:30 p.m., Taylor 102. Christopher Rothko in conversation with Loeb Director Bart Thurber, followed by a reception in the atrium.
• Closing Program — Thursday, January 29, 2026, 5:30 p.m., Taylor 102: Artist talk with Cecilia Vicuña.

Admission and Hours

Admission to the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is free and all galleries are wheelchair accessible. The Loeb is open Tuesday to Sunday (10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.) and, from June through August, late nights on Thursdays (5:00–7:00 p.m.). The Loeb is located at 124 Raymond Avenue, near the entrance to the Vassar College campus. Parking is available on Raymond Avenue. Directions to the campus in Poughkeepsie, NY, are available at vassar.edu/visit/tour#directions. The Art Center is also accessible via Dutchess County Public Transit, Bus Route L. For more information, call 845-437-5632 or visit vassar.edu/theloeb.

About the Loeb Art Center

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is a teaching and learning museum, free and open to all, supporting Vassar College’s educational mission and communities. Formerly the Vassar College Art Gallery, the Loeb is the first art museum at a college or university that was part of the institution’s original plan. Today, the permanent collection includes over 22,000 works, comprising paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, textiles, and glass and ceramic wares. The Loeb strives to be a catalyst for scholarly, creative, and social justice work by Vassar students and others. It aims to reflect a commitment to broaden and amplify the voices represented in the museum setting, and to ensure that the Loeb’s programs and practices have a positive impact on campus and beyond. To learn more, please visit vassar.edu/theloeb or follow on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

Commitment to DEAI

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College commits to Diversity, Equity, Access, and Inclusion (DEAI) as core values across its culture, systems, and practices. We pledge to allocate resources (human and financial) to create and sustain a museum culture in which difference is celebrated. The Loeb staff is dedicated to integrating DEAI priorities into gallery installations, programming, interpretation, collections management, acquisitions, and internal processes. Our ongoing work is guided by an intention to care for all people engaged with the Loeb while welcoming the exchange of ideas, enriching experiences, and diverse perspectives through art.

Land Acknowledgement

We acknowledge that Vassar stands upon the homelands of the Munsee Lenape, Indigenous peoples who have an enduring connection to this place despite being forcibly displaced by European colonization. Munsee Lenape peoples continue today as the Stockbridge–Munsee Community in Wisconsin, the Delaware Tribe and the Delaware Nation in Oklahoma, and the Munsee-Delaware Nation in Ontario. This acknowledgment, however, is insufficient without our reckoning with the reality that every member of the Vassar community since 1861 has benefited from these Native peoples’ displacement, and it is hollow without our efforts to counter the effects of structures that have long enabled—and that still perpetuate—injustice against Indigenous Americans. To that end, we commit to build and sustain relationships with Native communities; to expand opportunities at Vassar for Native students, as well as Native faculty and other employees; and to collaborate with Native nations to know better the Indigenous peoples, past and present, who care for this land.

Vassar College is a coeducational, independent, residential liberal arts college founded in 1861.