Circa Gallery
1125 Buchanan St NE
Minneapolis, MN
Exhibition dates:
July 20 – Aug 24
Opening reception:
July 20, 4 – 8 pm
Circa Gallery
1125 Buchanan St NE
Minneapolis, MN
Exhibition dates:
July 20 – Aug 24
Opening reception:
July 20, 4 – 8 pm
Quarter Gallery
Minneapolis, MN
Exhibition Dates:
Nov 15 – Dec 8, 2018
Reception:
Nov 30, 6-8pm
August 16, 2018
7-10pm
gr_und, Berlin
The Waiting Room
@Gallery 71
Edina, MN
Exhibition dates:
Aug 9 – Oct 27
Reception:
Aug 9, 7-9pm
Artist Discussion:
Oct 17, 6-7pm
Featuring the art of Lamia Abukhadra, Katayoun Amjadi, Sarah Sampedro, Chris Willcox; curated by Katayoun Amjadi.
Home Inside Out explores the idea of “home” not just as the sheltering eave and centering hearth, but as the site of alienating dynamics of loss and the slippage of identity, of barriers to ownership, of separation and longing. The artists in this exhibition reflect on the idea of sheltering space, from personal, collective, national or cultural perspectives. Home becomes a discursive arena in which inside and outside spaces hold specific social and cultural associations that can be subtended or subverted through artistic representation.
Inside and outside are conflated in Sarah Sampedro’s installation where the vulnerability within social and economic power structures becomes part of the everyday. Here the occupant is held “outside” by the language of exclusion and hidden borders. As an exile, Lamia Abukhadra looks into historical and colonial narratives and portrays the trauma of inheritance and national loss. After all, in Adorno’s words, ‘it is part of morality not to be at home in one’s home.” The outside spaces in Chris Willcox’s paintings evoke a temporal and metaphoric threshold: the contemplative place between home and play or work. Here time suspends, light fades, quiet settles in. Promise waits at the door. Katayoun Amjadi’s works take on a metaphorical approach to the ideology of home as commodity, the consumable good. Clay and porcelain speak to production and prefabrication yet the work suggests a fragile vulnerability. Time and gravity whisper in conspiratorial tones.
July 17, 2018
7-10pm
tête, Berlin
“One of the basic situationist practices is the dérive [literally: “drifting”], a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances. Dérives involve playful-constructive behavior and awareness of psychogeographical effects, and are thus quite different from the classic notions of journey or stroll. In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their relations, their work and leisure activities, and all their other usual motives for movement and action, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there.”
– Guy Debord, Theory of the Dérive, 1956
I’m thrilled to be heading back to Berlin this summer to participate in Picture Berlin, a Berlin-based, artist run residency to develop new work and meet international artists and curators. I loved Berlin so much last summer I can’t wait to go back!
I’m excited to be working with Mapping Prejudice to install my work, Covenant, with Art Shanties Project this winter. Swing by to learn more about the history of racially restrictive homeownership in Minneapolis.
Join us at Lake Harriet in Minneapolis on February 3-4 or 10-11 to experience the best of Minnesota winter.
In the Madison area?
Stop by the Art Lofts Gallery to see my work in
“Where Are You Now?“
Oct 14-26, 2017
Sept 26-Oct 7
Quarter Gallery
Minneapolis
Solomon’s Porch
Family Room Gallery
Minneapolis
Exhibition dates:
Sept 23 – Jan 24
Opening celebration:
Sept 23, 6-9pm
Why do we create social and physical boundaries to keep us from getting too close to one another? Stop by Solomon’s Porch in Minneapolis to see the work from my Berlin residency from the summer of 2017.