There’s No Place Like…
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011I’ve been updating the “previous exhibition” pages on The Renaissance Center’s website to archive shows that have been on display since I started curating here in January of 2010. In doing so, I ran across this show “There’s No Place Like…” that I put together last spring. In reviewing all the artwork in the show, I think this might be one of my favorite curating projects so far.
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In their 1996 essay titled “Re-Place-ing Space: The Roles of Place and Space in Collaborative Systems,” Steve Harrison and Paul Dourish eloquently explain,
Physically, a place is a space which is invested with understandings of behavioral appropriateness, cultural expectations, and so forth. We are located in “space,” but we act in “place.” Furthermore, “places” are spaces that are valued. The distinction is rather like that between a “house” and a “home”; a house might keep out the wind and the rain, but a home is where we live.
“There’s No Place Like…” features work by sixteen artists each exploring the murky gap between the notions of “house” and “home.” What signifiers transform a space into “home?” How long after a domestic space has been abandoned, destroyed, or transformed into a non-domestic space do the remaining materials continue to be imbued with the sense of “home?”
Artists include:
- Susan Alta Martin
- Nicholas Bustamante
- Wendy DesChene & Jeff Schmuki
- Kay Knight
- Tracie Grace Lyons
- Brandon Jenkins
- Susan H. Johnston
- Adele Mattern
- Sarah McFalls
- Lori Larusso
- David Linneweh
- Dominic Lippillo
- Mark Schoon
- Melissa Wilkinson
- Brandon Woods
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Adele Mattern
21 Henshaw; Bedroom
photographic print
24″ x 18″
2011
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Adele Mattern
21 Henshaw; Front Parlour
24″ x 18″
photographic print
2011
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Adele Mattern
Stuck On You
string, rice paper, encaustic, tape
dimensions vary
2011
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Lori Larusso
Hungry Heart
acrylic on panel
43″ x 40″
2010
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Wendy DesChene & Jeff Schmuki
Church St.
documentation of digital projection on forest
13″ x 19″
2009
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Wendy DesChene & Jeff Schmuki
Walston House
documentation of digital projection on forest
13″ x 19″
2009
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Wendy DesChene & Jeff Schmuki
Railroad Drive
documentation of digital projection on forest
13″ x 19″
2009
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Dominic Lippillo
Television and Stereo
digital print
24″ x 30″
2010
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Dominic Lippillo
Brown Recliner
digital print
24″ x 30″
2010
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Melissa Wilkinson
Camper (from the Deconstructed Disaster Series)
ink & watercolor on paper
29″ x 41″
2009
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Melissa Wilkinson
Lattice/Debris (from the Deconstructed Disaster Series)
ink & watercolor on paper
29″ x 41″
2010
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Mark Schoon
Neighbors
c-print
30″ x 24″
2010
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Tracie Grace Lyons
Eve’s Temptations
watercolor, pen & ink
12″ x 17.5″
2009
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Susan Alta Martin
Meth Lab
sculptural photo-collage & mixed media
42″ x 16″ x 14″
2009
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Susan Alta Martin
Meth Lab (detail)
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Sarah McFalls
Smith Farm, Tennessee
gesso, marble dust, sand, graphite & oil on wood
24″ x 48″
2009
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Brandon Woods
Interior: Lost House
oil on canvas
60″ x 36″
2010
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Kay Knight
Stairs
gouache on vintage wallpaper
22″ x 22″
2009
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Kay Knight
Addition
gouache on vintage wallpaper
22″ x 22″
2009
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David Linneweh
Refurbished Landscape (Sheridan 1)
oil & graphite on panel
12″ x 16″
2008
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David Linneweh
Refurbished Landscape (Percy 1)
oil & graphite on panel
12″ x 16″
2008
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David Linnewah
Refurbished Landscape (Laramie 2)
oil & graphite on panel
12″ x 16″
2008
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Brandon Jenkins
Identifying Who They Once Were
photography
18″ x 30″
2010
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Susan H. Johnston
Kitchen Icon
acrylic on canvas
20″ x 24″
2008
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Nicholas Bustamante
Room With a View
charcoal & India ink on drafting film
2009
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Nicholas Bustamante
Room With a View (detail)
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Nicholas Bustamante
Room With a View (detail)