If you hurry, you can catch the MoMA exhibit, Present Tense: Photographs by JoAnn Verburg before it closes on November 5th. Verburg’s photographs produce an array of reactions through both subtle and obvious techniques. Her work is described as “an exploration of how to extend temporality in photography—a medium of discrete moments in time.” To show the extension of time, Verburg works with large scale prints presented through multiple panels, sometimes in a diptych (two panels) or triptych (three panels) form. Consisting of landscapes, portraits, and still life, her paintings illustrate everything from the simplicity of an olive grove in Italy (Olive Trees After the Heat) to the most subtle movement of water (Water Triptych). Turning to the peaceful moments of daily life, her pieces Still Life with Jim and Untitled (Marvin & Maurice), explore human beauty.

The most captivating of the collection, Tina, Silent is a diptych piece in mixed medium. Verburg uses digital video, rear-projected film, and gelatin silver print, to show the subject as a muted model. Reminiscent of Warhol’s famous silent portrait films, this piece speaks loudly as a collection of silent and moving images. The exhibition allows you to reflect on the simplicity of time; in the detail of a person’s expression, water’s moving light rays and even the branches of an olive tree. JoAnn Verburg’s strength is taking these tiny details and manipulating them, so that even after you’ve left the exhibit, its power stays within you.