With Passing Years

Marité and Joe Robinson Strolling Gallery I
February 13–August 23, 2026
Black-and-white street photograph of three men on a city sidewalk. The man in the foreground wears a striped knit hat and an oversized mirrored visor that reflects storefronts and pedestrians. He leans slightly toward the camera. Behind him, one man looks down at his phone and another stands with hands in pockets, glancing away. Urban buildings and cars are out of focus in the background.

Chrystofer Davis, Mirrors, 2021, Digital Image. Courtesy of the artist.

In the Art Center’s Marité and Joe Robinson Strolling Gallery I, photographer Chrystofer Davis captures the portrait of a city in his exhibition With Passing Years. In a selection of photos of his hometown of Newark, NJ, Davis shows the personality of the Four Corners District. It is the people and architecture that give the city its personality. For this exhibition, Davis’s work is in conversation with archival photos courtesy of the Newark Public Library, to show the many lives the city has lived. With images captured as early as the 1850s, this exhibition is a testimony to Davis’s present-day role as an active archivist, continuing the legacy of those before him in showing the wonders of Newark.

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