Close to Home

CLOSE TO HOME is an exhibition of large-scale installations, mixed media works, and drawings inspired by poetry, labor, romance, and humor of life around the house. The exhibition ranges from Sally Minker’s frenetic parody, The High Anxiety Living Room to Steven Brower’s small scale replica of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House fashioned from Domino’s Pizza boxes — from Lisa Hoke’s meditations weighted by objects to Jeanne Tremel’s two dimensional works fashioned from scouring pads, dental floss, and twist ties. In this exhibition eleven artists examine the heroic and mundane from daily life. 

The featured work The High Anxiety Living Room is an environmental installation that is satire of a traditional living parodying the idea of home and hearth and domestic tranquility. It is a small room containing all the things that people usually acquire: coffee table, sofa, lamp, stereo, and TV. All of these objects were deconstructed and reconstructed, twisted or wrapped so they appear to be animated and taking a life of their own. High Anxiety Living room is a chaotic space: the sofa is not comfortable to sit on, the chair look like its in the midst of an explosion, and the other “furniture” rests of the edge of functionality.