Notions of Home: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Notions of Home: Selections from the Permanent Collection

February 1, 2021 – February 21, 2022

This exhibition features works from OCMA’s permanent collection that evoke contradictory feelings of home. The concept of domesticity has long been a source of inspiration for diverse forms of art and for exploring social concerns and identity. As we spend more time at home due to the pandemic, the boundaries between public and private space blur and our mixed attitudes toward home continue to intensify. This timely show captures ambivalent perceptions of home that shift between familiarity and estrangement and between comfort and conflict.

Curated by

Ziying Duan, Assistant Curator and Curatorial Administrator

Roland Reiss, Truth in the Face of Pressure, from the series “Morality Plays”, 1979; mixed media; gift of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Horowitz; Courtesy of the artist.
Notions of Home (installation view), 2021; Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA; Photo: ofstudio.
Notions of Home (installation view), 2021; Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA; Photo: ofstudio.