Home Works

CHART is pleased to present Home Works, a group exhibition featuring work by Tania Alvarez, Lauren Clay, Rachel Granofsky, Ann Toebbe, and Rachael Zur. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, April 6, from 6–8 pm, and the exhibition will remain on view through May 6, 2023.

How do you know a home when you see it? Do you just feel it? Simply contemplating the word, what appears in your mind’s eye? The answers are deeply personal, and likely have evolved over time. Homes are unique amalgamations of places and things, lived memories and moments that flood and define rooms. Day after day, year after year, we shape and reshape these spaces, adding our lives to their lineages, and they, in turn, become our worlds. As we build and imprint on them, homes in turn serve as the personalized settings for our own growth and development.

Home Works gathers artists who examine the architecture of our intimate surroundings and explore how those structures inform the personas we construct for ourselves. Whether it’s a glowing threshold, an illusory figure’s silhouette, or recreations of familial furnishings, the images in Home Works — crafted from a variety of materials and processes — speak to the physical remainders of lives lived in domestic spaces, as well as to the malleability of our homes and, by extension, the people who occupy them.