Thomas J Price's Midnight Moment & Music By Chris Ryan Williams

Thomas J Price: Man SeriesMay 1-31, 2025 | Nightly 11:57-MidnightPresented by Times Square Arts Special Performance by Chris Ryan WilliamsMay 2 | 11:30pm-11:57pmDuffy Square On Friday, May 2 from 11:30pm-12am, join us in the heart of Times Square for a special performance by interdisciplinary artist and musician Chris Ryan Williams and a viewing of May's Midnight Moment by artist Thomas J Price. The event is free and open to all, but register in advance for event updates. In Thomas J Price’s multi-channel Midnight Moment, the faces of several characters are multiplied across 95 displays, their gaze cast just beyond the reach of the nightly spectators in the plazas below. Price’s Man Series (2005-present) is a body of stop-motion animation works featuring sculpted, plasticine heads of male figures against stark black backgrounds. Coming alive through subtle eye movements and facial expressions, these quiet shifts bring a stillness to the visual cacophony of Times Square, and call attention to the way in which we track and perceive one another — an inner dialogue made conscious in the world’s most populated public spaces. In conjunction with Man Series, Times Square Arts will present Grounded in the Stars, Price’s 12-ft tall bronze figurative sculpture that challenges both the notion of the monument and monumentality. Price’s presentation on the screens and sculpture simultaneously exhibited on the Broadway plaza below forms a two-part takeover in Times Square, foregrounding the intrinsic value of the individual in new ways and amplifying marginalized bodies on a monumental scale. Grounded in the Stars will be on view from April 29 to June 17, 2025 on the Broadway plaza between 46th and 47th Streets. Presented by Times Square Arts, Midnight Moment is the public art series synchronized nightly from 11:57pm to 12am on 95 screens in Times Square, featuring a different artist’s work each month and reaching millions of viewers a year since 2012.About Thomas J Price Born in 1981, Thomas J Price lives and works in London. He studied at Chelsea College of Art and the Royal College of Art, London and has held solo exhibitions at institutions including: The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada; The National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, UK; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; Kunsthalle Krems, Austria; and Kunsthal Rotterdam. Price’s work is held in collections such as the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; and The Legacy Museum, Montgomery, AL. Price was commissioned by Hackney Council to create the first permanent public sculptures to celebrate the contribution of the Windrush generation and their descendants in the UK, unveiled in June 2022. His solo presentation, ‘Witness’, in collaboration with The Studio Museum in Harlem was on view in Marcus Garvey Park from 2021 – 2022. In 2025, Price will open a multi-venue exhibition in Florence across Piazza della Signoria, Palazzo Vecchio and Museo Novecento, on view from March. In September the artist will unveil the inaugural Neil Balvanes Tallawoladah Lawn Commission at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia. About Chris Williams Chris Ryan Williams is an interdisciplinary artist and musician based in Brooklyn, NY. His work takes the form of electroacoustic composition and performance installation and deals with decoding family history, ambience, and time-space compression. His debut EP ‘Live’ received praise from Jazz Right Now and The Quietus for “dazzling collaged pieces that ricochet between improvised passages and written material” (Peter Margasak, The Quietus). Williams’ work has been performed and presented extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe at Roulette Intermedium, Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Royal Danish Playhouse, National Sawdust, Performa Biennial, and he has been commissioned by Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, WasteLAnd and International Contemporary Ensemble. He has been in residence with BANFF Centre for the Arts, Foundation of Contemporary Arts, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Musik Installationen Nürnberg, was a Harvestworks: Technology Immersion Program 2024 resident and is 2023 American Composers Forum Fellow and 2024 Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellow. He has collaborated with creators including Ralph Lemon, Eyvind Kang, Patrick Shiroishi, Bennie Maupin, Nicole Mitchell, Imani Dennison, Wendy Eisenberg, Luke Stewart, Pink Siifu, and Marjani Forte-Saunders. Williams also has an ongoing collaboration with cellist Lester St. Louis under the moniker HxH, a duo which has “embraced the challenge of bringing laptop instrumentalism into a wide personal world by making sounds that are at once art-minded and accessible, and true to the tenets of spontaneous composition and “social music,” (Piotr Orlov, Pioneer Works) About Times Square Arts Times Square Arts, the public art program of the Times Square Alliance, collaborates with contemporary artists and cultural institutions to experiment and engage with one of the world's most iconic urban places. Through the Square's electronic billboards, public plazas, vacant areas and popular venues, and the Alliance's own online landscape, Times Square Arts invites leading contemporary creators, such as Charles Gaines, Joan Jonas, Jeffrey Gibson, Pamela Council, and Mel Chin, to help the public see Times Square in new ways. Times Square has always been a cultural district and place of risk, innovation and creativity, and the arts program ensures these qualities remain central to the district's unique identity. More Info below.