Holding Time, Tracing Light presents the artwork of San Francisco Bay Area artist Rachel Phillips in her first San Diego exhibition. Organized with collaboration from SDSU’s Special Collections and University Archives to include objects from their magic lantern collection, this multisensory exhibition takes visitors on a journey from the 1600s to today with one-of-a-kind objects and artworks depicting imagined narratives of people and places inspired by the artist’s own archive of collected snapshots and cabinet cards.

Curator: Chantel Paul
Special Collections: Amanda Lanthorn
Installation: Tom Fox
Fabrication: Reed Fagan
Sounds design: Chris Warren


 Gallery I

Selections from the Homer and Betty Peabody Magic Lantern Collection at SDSU


Gallery II

Selections from Growing Pains, Intrepid Girl Photographer and Fixed


Gallery III

Video Beyond the Horizon