Exhibition - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
SENSE OF PLACE: The Emotive Bonds of Human Geography
group exhibition - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Open Sky Editions Gallery
Exhibition Dates: July 6-August 23, 2024
SENSE OF PLACE: The Emotive Bonds of Human Geography
Exhibition Dates: July 6-August 23, 2024
Featuring Oklahoma-based artists, Leticia Bajuyo, Jason Cytacki, Pete Froslie, Eyakem Gulilat, James Kopp, Haley Prestifilippo, and Ann Sherman, “SENSE OF PLACE” highlights works that map the ways that built environments are navigated, capture the strangely familiar or familiarly strange--the uncanny--through lenses that flex the unheimlich maneuver, or complicate notions of public and private placemaking.
Also featured are images of vernacular architectural structures referred to as "anonymous sculptures" by Bernd and Hilla Becher as well as of swatches of framed urban scenes on the borders of cities by Robert Rauschenberg.
I am honored that my sculpture Turf Roll 3 was curated into this exhibition by Carina Evangelista
Inspired by the functional aesthetic of bales of hay, my Turf Roll series illustrates the artistry of these practical forms and a romantic view of our relationship to nature. The house is made from a kit sold for model train dioramas that comes with several options for customization, creating a faux sense of individuality.
While the house looks like a storybook home with its vivid blue color, decorative curtains, and comfortable porch on a perfect lawn, its tenuous relationship to the large turf roll leaves us to wonder whether the house is, like a snail, pulling its landscape with it as it travels or if the landscape is rolling itself up, endangering the house and tossing it from its foundation.