“Where Metronomes Meet” Featuring:
Nathan Byrne, Nicholas Dowgwillo and Chelsea Ayumi Koga with special guest; CG
One Night Event with Live Performances! Saturday, November 15th 2-5pm
This final exhibition in the How Are You series brings together three artists; Chelsea Ayumi Koga, Nicholas Dowgwillo, and Nathan Byrne. Each artist's work meditates on time as a sensory material. Each offers a kind of attunement: to weather, to decay, to environment, to memory. Together, their works do not seek to resolve time, but to stretch it, agitate it, hold it gently at the edges.
Site-specific, somatic, and ephemeral, the installations engage the room as a living body—one that breathes, listens, marks, and remembers. The viewer is asked not just to look, but to feel and to move slowly in order to recalibrate. In the small space of Hammerspace Gallery, these works converge like divergent timelines collapsing into a singular now.
The exhibition becomes a test: of attention, of presence, of how many experiences one body can hold at once. This is not a resolution, but a gathering. A quiet invitation to dwell in the simultaneity of sensation, dissonance, and change.
NATHAN BYRNE
Nathan Byrne is a Southeast Michigan based artist / educator / curator. He teaches at Stamps School of Art and Design and is the Director of Sometimes Space in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Nathan’s work has been exhibited nationally and is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center, I-Park, KHN Center for the Arts, Prairie Ronde, Recology, and Rockland Woods.
“Through spatial interventions, I materialize, reimagine, and explore personal, yet universal themes such as emotion, passage of time, and contemplation. Intrigued by direct experience, and the potential of conveying phenomenal, meditative, and emotive states through materiality, process, and placement, I explore the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. The projects are grounded in perception, transformative space, and human experience. My work allows the viewer to enter a perceptual threshold and have their own unique embodied experience of space and of self.”
NICHOLAS DOWGWILLO
Nicholas Dowgwillo is a Detroit-based artist/printmaker who makes images, objects and earthworks that engage with the psychological, poetic, and cultural dimensions of plants and environments. He is the founder of Temple of Print, a cooperative printmaking studio in Detroit, and currently serves as the 2D Media Studio Coordinator for the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.
Dowgwillo holds an MFA in Printmaking from Arizona State University and a BFA from the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions at venues such as C.Y.N.K. Studios (MI), Dye House (RI), Hong Kong Open Printshop (HK), Tama Art University Museum (Tokyo), and the Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivières (Quebec). Dowgwillo’s prints are included in public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum (London) and the Zuckerman Museum of Art (GA).
CHELSEA AYUMI KOGA
Chelsea Ayumi Koga’s work interrogates time, duration, and the body as site of exploration. She earned a BFA from the University of Michigan’s STAMPS School of Art & Design (2025) and has participated in international and national residencies, including at Penland School of Craft (NC) and the Burren College of Art (Ireland).
Her practice spans durational performance, site-specific installation, and collaborative projects. Recent solo exhibitions include My New House at CYNK Gallery, a two-week-long durational performance that transformed the gallery into a lived environment, and group exhibitions at Sometimes Space. She has also co-curated to care for _, &, a night of durational performance works for the inaugural Media Live Ypsi Performance Festival.
Her process draws on endurance art, relational performance, and a willingness to “get out of the way” of the work to allow the social dynamics to emerge.
CG
"Claudia Grace” (CG) is a writer and performer from Ypsilanti, MI. They have previously worked in theater and have a background in film. CG hopes this piece will be the first of many collaborations with Chelsea Ayumi Koga.