OCMA

Notions of Home: Selections from the Collection

This exhibition features a selection of artworks that evoke ambivalent feelings of home. For the exhibiting artists, home is an extension of identity and site of both work and leisure. As we spend more time at home due to the pandemic, the boundaries between public and private space blur and our concept of domesticity evolves. This timely show captures contradictory perceptions of home that shift between familiarity and estrangement, and comfort and conflict.

Image: Deborah Mesa-Pelly, Rosy, 2000; type C print on aluminum; 29-1/4 x 36-7/8 inches; Gift of Nancy Portnoy, New York; Courtesy of the artist.

The Harpist in the Ogre’s Mind

ASMA’s installation invites viewers to imagine entering the mind of an ogre. Through video, sculpture, and sound, the installation offers a multisensory environment that blends fantasy with cultural critique. Viewers are invited to see through the ogre’s “eyes” and navigate its movement in an interactive digital world that exists beyond the gallery. Ogres have often represented otherness in many folk tales and legends. By offering visitors an opportunity to envision becoming a monster, ASMA allows for an understanding of difference as a quality that exists within everyone.

Image: ASMA, Half Blood Princess (installation view), 2019; micro-paraffin cast and encaustic paint on MDF; 10-3/8 x 15-1/2 x 1-1/2 inches; Courtesy of the artists. Photo courtesy of PEANA.