Andrea Geyer | Chronostasia: Select Acquisitions 2020–2025 at Vassar College

Andrea Geyer, Constellations (Zora Neale Hurston after Carl Van Vechten), 2022 is included in Chronostasia: Select Acquisitions 2020–2025 at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, New York, an exhibition that brings together more than sixty works acquired over the past five years.

 

In Geyer's ongoing series, Constellations, reimagined portraits depict some of the influential women who held salons in the US, Europe and beyond, significantly impacting the culture and politics of their time. The works reflect on the networks of women who, on one hand, have actively shaped cultural landscapes and yet, on the other, are often invisible in our contemporary museums.

 

The title of the exhibition refers to chronostasis, a perceptual illusion in which time appears to slow after one’s attention shifts. “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.