Times Square Arts Announces Winter 2025-26 Midnight Moment Program

Jen Stark, Drip Cascade, 2025. Courtesy of the artist

Featuring Jen Stark (December), Colette Copeland (January), and Eeman Masood (February)

Times Square Arts, the largest public platform for contemporary performance and visual arts, is pleased to present their Midnight Moment Winter Season featuring digital works by multidisciplinary artists Jen Stark (December), Colette Copeland (January), and Eeman Masood (February).

Midnight Moment is the world’s largest, longest-running public digital art exhibition, synchronized on over 92 electronic billboards throughout Times Square nightly from 11:57pm to midnight. The Winter 2025–26 program spans a hypnotic, psychedelic sequence rivaling the vibrancy of Times Square to a milky tribute to the beauty and strength of aging women, and the quiet endurance of the natural world. 

Jen Stark, Drip Cascade (Times Square Edition)
December 1–30, 2025 | Nightly 11:57–Midnight
Drip Cascade (Times Square Edition) is a hypnotizing geometric pattern of what Jen Stark refers to as “psychedelic camouflage,” displaying uncommon forms of rainbow combinations to create a tapestry of organic movement. Stark’s work acts as an immersive veil, transporting audiences to a different, higher dimension—an arduous feat in the center of one of the most bustling cities in the country. 

“I vividly recall my first visit to New York City. I took a train from Miami at sixteen years old, and remember looking up at the towering buildings and feeling inspired by the electric energy,” said Jen Stark. “Times Square in particular felt like the epicenter of the universe. It’s incredibly significant to me for my work to be displayed here in the exact place I stood 26 years ago, staring up in awe of the bright lights while dreaming about what life had in store for me.”

Colette Copeland, Galaxias tou Gala
Co-Presented with The Alternative Art School (TAAS)
January 1–31, 2026 | Nightly 11:57–Midnight
Colette Copeland presents a poetic homage to her mother and a celebration of mature beauty as resilient, evolving, and deeply human. Drawing inspiration from poet Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey, the video work explores themes of growth through pain, intergenerational strength, and the quiet power of aging. Centered on the fragmented figure of the artist immersed in a pink milk bath filled with flowers, the video employs intimate framing, gentle pacing, and layered visual textures to convey a narrative of enduring grace. 

Through subtle gestures and stillness, the video’s subject embodies a beauty that transcends youth—rooted in experience, vulnerability, and dignity. With its emotive resonance and visual sensitivity, the piece offers a compelling reflection on love, memory, and the many ways women continue to bloom—softly or boldly—across a lifetime.

Galaxias tou Gala is made in collaboration with editor Richard Bailey, composer and original score performer Dallin Peacock, videographer Gia Randazzo, and makeup artist Chris Michelle. 

January’s Midnight Moment is co-presented by Times Square Arts and The Alternative Art School (TAAS), a global online non-traditional art school and residency program. This new partnership offers mentorship for TAAS students applying to the Midnight Moment open call. 

Eeman Masood, There is a voice that doesn’t use words, Listen
February 1–28, 2026 | Nightly 11:57–Midnight 
Eeman Masood’s hand-painted animation There is a voice that doesn’t use words, Listen explores resilience and interconnectedness through the figure of the majestic banyan tree — an important symbol in South Asian cultural and spiritual traditions, and native flora to Lahore, Pakistan, where the artist was born. With each frame meticulously painted by hand over a period of several months, Masood’s work reflects on the quiet generosity of nature that can be held in memories despite displacement. 

Shimmering particles representing life and energy encircle the banyan tree in a gently shifting nocturnal landscape, obscuring the divide between the earthly and the celestial divine. The piece becomes a lyrical meditation on growth, renewal, and ecological responsibility, reminding viewers of nature’s quiet endurance and our shared obligation to protect it. Masood considers her work as an echo of the philosophies of Rumi and Tagore, urging us to listen—not just with our ears, but with our hearts.

ABOUT JEN STARK
Born 1983 in Miami, Florida, Jen Stark is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose work draws inspiration from sacred geometry, fractals, and organic growth patterns. Her art possesses a mystifying simplicity that subtly alters perception and unearths the complex systems of nature. Stark’s diverse practice transcends all forms of media, ranging from paintings and sculptures to animations and interactive installations. 

Her work has garnered widespread recognition, leading to collaborations with HBO, Postmates, MTV, Skechers among many others. In a major highlight moment in 2025, her artwork was featured on Sphere in Las Vegas. She has exhibited at institutions including the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, Florida, and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

ABOUT COLETTE COPELAND
Colette Copeland is an interdisciplinary visual artist based in Granbury, Texas. Inspired by Dada and Fluxus, her artistic practice combines personal narratives, history, and contemporary culture using a variety of media including video, photography, sound, performance, printmaking, and sculptural installation. Her performance videos utilize experimental narrative strategies to map the complexities of human and non-human relationships.

Over more than three decades, Copeland has held 40 solo exhibitions and 170 group exhibitions and festivals across 35 countries. She holds a BFA from the Pratt Institute and an MFA from Syracuse University and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Texas.

Copeland received a 2023–24 Fulbright Scholar Research Award to document contemporary female artists in India working with socially engaged practices and to develop an experimental sound project that amplifies the voices of female, non-binary, and queer communities. She writes for Glasstire and Arteidolia. 

ABOUT THE ALTERNATIVE ART SCHOOL 
The Alternative Art School offers an online Global Residency Program and art courses led by some of the world’s most visionary artists. Entirely online and designed for working artists everywhere, TAAS provides an active, invigorating, and non-traditional space for making and learning.

The Global Residency Membership is a toolkit for being an artist in the 21st century. It is diverse and deeply connected. Instructors know each artist’s name and practice, and workshops are affordable, in-depth, and enriched by a globally diverse cohort. The program includes continuous programming with visiting lecturers and weekly participatory sessions.

ABOUT EEMAN MASOOD
Born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1998, Eeman Masood earned her BFA from the National College of Arts (NCA), Lahore, in 2021 with a major in miniature painting. Her work explores the emotional and spiritual connections between nature, solitude, and ecological awareness. Combining traditional techniques with contemporary mediums, she expands classical miniature painting through intricate works and hand-painted animations.

Based in British Columbia, Canada, she completed her MFA at the University of Victoria in 2025 on a fully funded scholarship. Masood is the recipient of several notable awards, including the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, the Jeffrey Rubinoff Graduate Scholarship, the Jessie Allan Forsyth Scholarship, and the Canwest Global Scholarship in Video Arts. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is part of the permanent collection at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), India. Recently, Masood was nominated for the Emerging artist Lind Prize and now on the 2026 official longlist  for the Lind prize in Canada. She is represented by Galerie ISA. 

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, Mel Chin and Kehinde Wiley, 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.