Domestic 1:
A Shaggy Dog
May 4 - June 8, 2025
Uri Aran, Lucas Blalock, Peggy Chiang, Jill Goldstein, Max Guy, Kenji Ide, Bill Jenkins, Edward Kay, Em Kettner, Sam Linguist, Charles Mayton, Ryan McLaughlin, Shala Miller, Yu Nishimura, Umico Niwa, Alexandra Noel, Virginia Overton, Eric Palgon, Walter Price, Aurie Ramirez, Bruce Sherman, Angus Suttie
“Domestic (1): A Shaggy Dog” is a large group show of mostly small and very small works, arranged on shelves alongside books and objects. The installation will take the form of a private conversation between things, between myself and a dear friend and collaborator*, between artists, and with the viewer who will be seeing works in an intimate landscape of sorts, within a private space, and with someone’s personal effects. The exhibition has taken shape (as most things do these days) across text chains about what’s for dinner, art, books, cocktails, politics and interior design. There have been messages/images sent over Instagram, shared Dropboxes, Google docs, video meetings and some excellent sandwiches. This intimacy, and some slippage between the personal and the professional is part of the whole performance.
Arranged in accordance with aesthetic or personal logic, this exhibition abstracts the concept of the wunderkammer and a human tendency to shelve things that fit into categories like naturalia, artificialia and exotica. Most of the works are less easily categorized, more hybrid, less overt in their source. Memento mori and still-life are embedded in the domestic experience too: the family photo, the melted candle, crumbs on the counter, the pawprints of deceased family dogs.
Thursday - Saturday, 11-5, and other times by appointment. DM for the address. Previews are available on request.
*This exhibition was made in collaboration with Steven Eckler.
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