The Space Between Now and Forever

Loisir Gallery LA, April 25 – May 25, 2025

Venice Biennale artist and Pollock Prize recipient Todd Williamson unveils a new body of work that explores the fluid boundaries between influence, time, and transcendence. In The Space Between Now and Forever, Williamson investigates how leadership, legacy, and the weight of human ambition echo across history—while extending that dialogue beyond our earthly confines to the vast unknown.

Building on the thematic foundations of his acclaimed 2019 Venice Biennale installation, Processional, Williamson continues his deep engagement with the resonance of modern thought leaders through layered color, texture, and sound. Yet, in this series, his inquiry expands beyond the present moment, imagining how ideas persist—etched into memory, into art, and even into the fabric of space itself. A fragment of Williamson’s artistic vision now travels aboard a lunar library, joining an archive of human heritage destined for the Moon.

At the core of these paintings lies a meditation on impermanence and permanence: abstract impressions of public figures emerge and dissolve within the surfaces, while billowing layers of pigment capture moments of reflection, tension, and revelation in a single breath. Engraved quotations from influential voices—ranging from Barack Obama and Donald Trump to Elon Musk—are embedded within the work, acting as spectral echoes of the figures who shape our world. Interwoven musical elements heighten this sense of resonance, creating a multisensory dialogue that asks: What endures? What fades? And how do we define our place within the ever-shifting present?

This exhibition extends the spiritual undercurrents of Williamson’s earlier chapel installation in Venice—where the hush of ancient walls converged with the pulse of modern voices. Now, in Los Angeles, that conversation stretches toward the cosmos, reflecting on the ways culture, thought, and artistic expression are preserved beyond the constraints of time and space.

In The Space Between Now and Forever, Williamson invites us to move through a landscape of abstraction that is both deeply personal and universally expansive. As history collides with the future, and as the present moment flickers between permanence and ephemerality, we are left to consider our own imprint—on this world and beyond.