1878 Gallery
March 12 - May 29, 2022
ArtWalk Reception
Saturday, March 12, 2021
6 – 9 PM
This exhibition is supported in part by a grant from Texas Commission on the Arts.
Sebastien Boncy
Time After Time
Time After Time features photographs by Sebastien Boncy of the Northwest Houston community where he resides. In part documentary and universally familiar, Boncy offers viewers an opportunity to see this built environment through his lens via thousands of images he has captured and shared, copyright free, through an online archive. His images document the residue of urban decay and renewal while rarely capturing the human figure in their frame. In what could be described as images of the end of civilization, evidence of their enduring presence can be found. Boncy describes his work as offering “embers of hope in the ruins, the promise of a new world, where we can hear the cheers between the screams.”
Sebastien Boncy was born in Haiti and currently lives in Houston, TX. He received his BFA from the University of Houston, and his MFA from the University of North Texas. His has exhibited at Mystic Lyon (Houston), Box 13 Artspace (Houston), Gaddis Geeslin Gallery at Sam Houston State University (Huntsville), and The Oak Cliff Cultural Center (Dallas). His work has been published in magazines Sugar and Rice and Found Me and the online publication Not That But This. Boncy has maintained a hyperlocal practice centered around an online photographic archive of the city through his ongoing Purple Time Space Swamp. He is all six members of the Pugilist Press Collective and has taught art and photography at University of North Texas, Lone Star College, The Art Institute of Houston, and University of Houston.
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