EVENTS

Eva Lundsager: Time is Very Quick

September 27, 2025 from 6pm – 8pm

Talley Dunn Gallery

Talley Dunn Gallery is honored to announce the opening of Time is Very Quick, a solo exhibition of exquisite new works by esteemed artist Eva Lundsager. Created during her prestigious McDowall Residency and continued in the artist’s Boston studio, Time is Very Quick marks Lundsager’s first presentation of large-scale paintings on canvas at the gallery. We invite you to join us for an artist talk at 3pm on Saturday, September 27th and celebrate Lundsager at the reception that evening from 6pm – 8pm.

For three decades Eva Lundsager has been making abstract paintings structured as an imagined, changing space; paintings that evoke expansiveness and a sense of watchful waiting.  Imagery simultaneously specific and indeterminate suggests life forms moving through atmosphere, over a planet’s surface, and deep into solid ground. The paintings are built of varied processes of paint application; layers of pours, drips, glazes, and brushstrokes, and they use complex color, at times seductive, at other times alienating.  Painted marks become animated forms, unknown but on the edge of recognition.  Lundsager’s work suggests unfamiliar places seen mid-transition as events of indeterminate consequence unfold.

Born in Buffalo and raised in Maryland, Lundsager grew up wandering her semi-rural surroundings.  She received a BA in art from the University of Maryland, studying with artists Sam Gilliam, Anne Truitt, Claudia DeMonte and Nick Krushenick, and writer and theorist Jack Burnham.  She moved to New York in 1985 to attend the MFA program at Hunter College, working with painters Ralph Humphrey, Marcia Hafif, and Susan Crile, art critic and historian Rosalind Krauss, and ceramicist and writer Susan Peterson.  Simultaneous to her MFA pursuit she was the registrar for the ground-breaking Gracie Mansion Gallery in the East Village, getting a parallel education from owners Gracie and Sur Rodney (Sur), and artists Judy Glantzman, David Wojnarowicz, Al Hansen, Peter Hujar, Hope Sandrow, Stephen Lack and others.  After sixteen years in New York, she lived a decade in Saint Louis, Missouri, where she spent a fair amount of time watching the quickly changing sky; compelling, beautiful, and occasionally frightening.  Since 2012 she has lived and worked in Boston.