Born in 1977, William Monk grew up listening to psychedelic rock from Pink Floyd and watching avant-garde films like Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Those genre-bending works gave way to enigmatic paintings of his own, which rejected reality and logic and instead welcomed dreamlike visions from the depths of his own psyche. Monk compared painting to “being inside a submarine,” using repetition of patterns like smoke rings and rock formations to evoke “thin places,” where barriers between real and spiritual worlds begin to break down. With works painted in London and New York during the last five years, this new exhibition builds from Monk’s desire to investigate the subconscious. Anchored by a hazy color palette, the exhibition is titled for a phenomenon that sees the sky suddenly darkening, whether from storms or solar eclipses, resulting in an alienating timelessness. —Maggie Turner