September 11 - October 4, 2020
A group exhibition from Clamp Light Studios.
From the gallery:
“Viewings by appointment only. Please call, email, or message us on Facebook or Instagram. The exhibition can also be viewed through our large window.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:
Home Sick is an exhibition that thinks about how our relationship with our homes has changed in the midst of the COVID pandemic. The exhibition includes the work of Alissa Polan, Erin Stafford and Joyce Lin. The way we relate to our homes and the objects that occupy our homes has changed during the last several months. More focus, thought, and obsession has been placed on our interiors and the furniture, tchotchkes, plants, and other creatures that occupy our spaces. Joyce Lin’s meticulous, hermetically sealed furniture and plants speak to the hypervigilant cleanliness we find ourselves living though. Erin Stafford’s furry bathtub and decadent Amuse Bouche soap sculptures distort self-care through a surrealistic lens. The strange way we currently curate and display our homes through technology is manifested in Alissa Polan’s grotesquely beautiful distorted homeware collages. At once sanctuary and jail cell, our homes have grown into us this year. Home Sick, funny, dark, and lovely–thinks about the affecting relationship we find ourselves living in. Curated by: Sarah Fox
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Erin Stafford’s aesthetic tendencies are reflected in her studio practice as a result of her affluent upbringing in Dallas, Texas where she found upper-middle class expectations full of irony and contradiction. This sense of cultural refinement, which included various forms of ritual and tradition, shaped her identity until 2002, when she began her art education at the University of North Texas. It was here that she was surrounded by eccentric artists and jazz musicians, which inspired her to challenge established social conventions. After receiving her MFA at the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2009, she returned to her hometown where she continues her studio practice along with teaching and curatorial endeavors at Red Arrow Contemporary. Her most recent exhibitions includes a solo exhibition entitled Lovesick at Kirk Hopper Fine Art in Dallas, TX, a group exhibition entitled Lost Eden at Galveston Art Center, curated by Dennis Nance, and inclusion in the 2017 Texas Biennial, curated by Leslie Moody Castro which featured both a sculptural installation and resin casted eggs made while as an artist-in residence with Caetani Cultural Centre in Vernon, British Columbia. Additionally, she is also working toward a two-person show with Heyd Fontenot at the Ft. Worth Community Art Center in 2021. She has also been awarded The Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant from the Dallas Museum of Art.
Alissa D. Polan is an artist and curator. She has attended residencies internationally and her collages and installations have been exhibited nationally, including Joya: arte + ecología / AiR (Andalucía, Spain), LMAKgallery, (New York, NY), Arlington Arts Center (Arlington, VA), Heather Marx Art Advisory (San Francisco, CA), Klowden Mann (Culver City, CA), Sonoma Valley Museum of Art (Sonoma, CA), and Jonathan Ferrara Gallery (New Orleans, LA). She received her MFA in Sculpture from SFAI (San Francisco, CA). Alissa currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Joyce Lin is an artist and furniture designer passionate about making objects that explore material, form, and the ever-shifting relationship between humans and their environment. She attended the Brown/RISD Dual Degree Program, where she earned Bachelor’s degrees in Furniture Design at the Rhode Island School of Design and Geology-Biology at Brown University in 2017. She has since exhibited in several galleries including R & Company (New York, NY), David Shelton Gallery (Houston, TX), Sawyer Yards (Houston, TX), and DesignTO (Toronto, Canada), and has work acquired by collections such as the RISD Museum in Providence, RI. Joyce lives and works in Houston, TX and was a 2019 artist-in-residence at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft.”
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