This Moment Without Time

PITTSBURGH, PA – Mark Rengers Gallery is excited to announce their next exhibition: This Moment Without Time. Featuring local ceramicist Isabella Maroon and local painter Nicole Renee Ryan, this exhibit transports you to an undefined place of oddity and wonder.

Who we are and what we value are heavily shaped by the places we inhabit, the experiences we carry, and the connections we form. As time passes, moments begin to blur, and what we believe to be true can become uncertain: Did that conversation really happen? Did I really see that place? In recalling the past, we unconsciously reconstruct it, filling in foggy gaps and altering details until memory becomes something between recollection and invention. A single place, memory, or lifetime can expand into infinite possibilities. In this space between what happened and what we remember, perception becomes fluid, time becomes irrelevant, and place becomes imagined.

Nicole Renee Ryan’s landscape paintings of misremembered places, alongside Isabella Maroon’s fragmented and reassembled ceramics, inhabit this dissonant space between familiarity and uncertainty. Through careful processes of making and reimagining, both artists transform fragments of experience into environments that feel at once remembered and invented. They create a world that feels strangely familiar -- one that asks us to consider how we remember, what we forget, and how much of what we know is shaped by what we imagine.

Link: https://markrengersgallery.com/show/mark-rengers-gallery-this-moment-without-time  

Event Details:

What: This Moment Without Time Opening Reception

When: Friday, October 2, 6-8 pm

Where: First National Bank Exhibition Hall, 604 Beaver St. 2nd Floor, Sewickley PA 15143

About the First National Bank Exhibition Hall:

To better serve our community and expand education through the arts, First National Bank invites selected students from the Pittsburgh Public Schools into a program to experience, learn, and engage with contemporary arts at the Youth Arts Possibilities Program (YAPP).  Mark Rengers Gallery, in collaboration with Sweetwater Center for the Arts, intends to create a more accessible space for youth to envision their future potential in the world of art and creativity. Through exhibition tours, conversations with artists, and hands-on activities, young artists will develop a strong understanding of the arts, be embedded with the power of creative confidence, and gain access to the tools necessary to succeed. 

About Mark Rengers Gallery:

Mark Rengers Gallery is a Sewickley‑based full‑service art destination that blends curated contemporary exhibitions with masterful custom framing. Founded by gallery veteran Mark Rengers and curator Melanie Vera, the studio offers personalized art education, bespoke design solutions, and a commitment to championing diverse emerging artists. For seasoned collectors and first‑time buyers alike, the gallery delivers a seamless acquisition journey from discovery to display, turning every art purchase into a lasting, meaningful expression of self.