A Home For All, Art Matters

With this year’s theme of ADAPTED VISIONS, we ask which artworks have a place in the gallery or any other institution. In a day where duct-taped bananas posed under conceptual ingenuity sit side by side with perfect oil paintings of old white men, how do we properly critique art in this day and age? What artistic agendas do institutions carry that bias-specific techniques and materiality?

This exhibition questions what artwork does have a gallery home, and it does it by bringing the “home” into the gallery. Textile artists Micha Paradis, Mila Granberg, and Shan Collar all question how fibres can contribute while still being artisanal and craft works. In addition to being a textile piece, Maayan Ben Porat also pushes installation norms with her backgammon board and beadwork. Alternatively, Nicole Phanalasy’s piece expresses nostalgia through personal trinkets and mementos. In another style of play, Lagoey uses comedy and imagination to narrate about a fish-man wrestler.

Using craft, mementos, and personal narratives as a practice framework, these six artists create a nurturing environment that pursues the joy of making. Creating such a home is where we push institutional barriers and truly flourish as artists.

- Opening on March 21, at 6 p.m.