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Will Rogan鈥檚 (b. 1975) multifaceted work often reflects on prosaic manifestations of time鈥檚 passage that he identifies in his local environs, whether in a mural in Berkeley he passes regularly on his bike or on a coffee mug he drinks from in his studio. Primarily taking the form of photography, collage, sculpture, or video, Rogan鈥檚 work possesses a subtlety and quietude that inspire thoughtful consideration of the material effects of time and space. For MATRIX 253, Rogan鈥檚 first solo exhibition in a museum, the artist has created a new body of work that explores various time scales鈥攑ast, present, and future鈥攁s evinced in a reversed order or a backward motion. The exhibition radiates conceptually from a video he collaborated on with his brother; together they constructed a hearse that drives forward from the rear, and then recorded it moving. Sculptures and photographs, too, exhibit an inverted state, including a picture of a ruler that measures length from right to left, made by his daughter, and a sculpture of a plastic camera from Time magazine that possesses antipodal features.