All the Time, All the Time is a 3-person immersive photography installation by artists Colby Deal, Juan Fuentes, and John Lake. Featuring photographs taken over the course of three decades, a sense of timelessness meets the unpredictable as each artist entrusts the crucial task of editing to his fellow collaborators. Carrying both deeply personal and universal histories, photographs printed on paper, silk, and other fabrics are mounted via tacks and staples onto the walls of the gallery in a maximalist site-specific experience.
Presented via experimental modes and photographic processes, this exhibition features both black and white and color images created in Colorado, New York, Texas, and Mexico, among other locales, allowing for unexpected connections to resonate between images. The subjects throughout All the Time, All the Time are connected by the invisible threads that connect the artists; tone and form create a visual rhythm as the play between images comes into focus.
Memory’s perfect imperfection is triply recreated as the installation takes the personal, intimate, place-based, and collaborative nature of each of the artists’ artwork into new directions. In All the Time, All the Time, Deal, Fuentes, and Lake frame the creative-interpersonal as substantive form, in hopes of transporting viewers into a womb of imaginative experiences, moments in time, and brushes with the surreal.
-Marsha Mack