Men in the off hours - Central Server Works, Los Angeles, CA
installation view, Men in the off hours
Installation view, Men in the off hours
Time Difference (24/7), 2025. Oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches.
Men in the off hours - Central Server Works, Los Angeles, CA
installation view, Men in the off hours
Installation view, Men in the off hours
Time Difference (24/7), 2025. Oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches.
men in the off hours
February 20-April 22, 2025
The exhibition, inspired by Anne Carson’s Men in the Off Hours, will explore themes of fragmented time, identity, and the transformative, often overlooked moments that shape us.
Anne Carson’s Men in the Off Hours opens by confronting the moments outside the bounds of traditional time. It is a meditation on figures—famous, forgotten, and mythic—that inhabit the silent, liminal spaces between action and reflection. Carson invites us to reconsider the nature of masculinity, time, and presence by highlighting these "off hours"—times when history is not being made, but when profound personal and universal truths emerge. The exhibition responds to this central idea by exploring how identity, masculinity, and time itself are shaped by these hidden, overlooked moments.
Just as Carson’s prose draws unexpected connections between figures like Thucydides, Virginia Woolf, and Lazarus, the exhibition will combine mythic and modern narratives, challenging the viewer to rethink history and identity through the lens of what has been left out, erased, or hidden in the cracks of time. The "off hours" are not simply times of rest or inaction; they are essential moments of personal transformation and introspection, spaces where one can grapple with the complexities of life, death, memory, and myth.
Central Server Works was founded in 2021 in the converted studio space of a family home in Pico-Robertson, Los Angeles. The gallery is an artist-run commercial art gallery and production company exhibiting, researching, disseminating, and collaborating on the creation of the work of contemporary artists. CSW’s current operations are in Downtown Los Angeles, with a project space in Venice, CA in collaboration with EC3.
Central Server Works stages international exhibitions, participates in art fairs, produces film and theater projects, and publishes books and editions through Central Server Works Press. In 2025 Central Server Works will launch Opposite People a platform for spatial and interior design for fine art, theater, performance, film, fashion and residential spaces.