Catalyst Contemporary is pleased to present “Sedimentary Time,” a group exhibition with works on paper by William S. Dutterer, Artemis Herber, and Kei Ito on view from March 9 through April 8, 2023. The collection of works presents a series of catastrophic events and memories both personal and cultural through the medium of charcoal — a material made through a process of fire — that transforms these memories into energy. This medium combined with the subject matter summons the mythological gift of Prometheus to creatively turn the fire back into knowledge for humankind’s consideration.

Artemis Herber is an award-winning artist in both mediums of sculpture and painting. Being of Greek heritage, she developed concepts on how humans live in shared spheres towards current conditions on Earth and ‘Gaia Rise’ in the context of polit-myth. Her research into how humans have affected the Earth’s environment, geology, and climate has deepened through her residencies at the Rensing Center (SC), theCoLAB (London), Skopelos Foundation, and The Delphic Preview, Greece.

Kei Ito is a visual artist working primarily with camera-less image making and installation. Ito’s work addresses issues of deep loss and intergenerational connection through the exploration of inherited trauma passed down from his late grandfather, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. Ito utilizes photography’s materiality and experimental processes to make visible the invisible: radiation, life and death, and memory.
William S. Dutterer (1943-2007) was a passionate artist whose paintings and drawings tackle socially conscious topics like war and humans’ cruelty toward humans as well as more personal ideas of loneliness and isolation. While Minimalism is the hallmark of his earliest output, the vast majority of Dutterer’s subsequent work often walks a thin figurative line between humor and tragedy.

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