My artwork is centered on an exploration of my personal landscape—home, family, memory. My drawings use mapping as a means of understanding my evolving relationship with ‘home’.

“As kids, our process of interpretation is limited by our vocabulary and experience. My grandparents sold their home after it became difficult for my Gramma Goldie to climb the stairs. They bought a condo that was the nicest home I had ever seen with my own ten-year-old eyes.  I decided that the condo was so nice it was impossible that it belonged to my grandparents. The place belonged to some rich people who hired my Dad’s folks to take care of their house when they were out of town. On the weekends my grandparents would have us over and pretend that it was their house we were visiting. I would try to act like I didn’t know their secret so they wouldn’t be embarrassed. I hoped the rich people didn’t come home early. I suppose that the richness of my grandparent’s new home alienated me or made me ashamed. Perhaps, as children, our perceptions are deliberately limited so we are not harmed by the truth of things. Our imaginations can provide an alternate reality alongside an upsetting one. A particular token can turn into an imaginary talisman of protection from real evil. A carefully practiced routine can be a rock of stability in a crazy storm of chaos. As an adult I can still recognize versions of these mechanisms in my functioning. I address these subjects in some of my most recent pieces that will be present at this exhibition. The show is titled, Osm, which is the word, ‘awesome,’ excerpted from a five year old’s writing on the wall of his parent’s house; ‘Silas is Osm.’””

For No One But Us is a collection of work by artists using photography as a way to engage in their creative process. Images that would only exist on a hard-drive, in a bedroom, or on a studio wall are on display at LivingRoom. The photographs in this presentation are images that inspire these artists to make more art work. This is a collection of self generated inspiration curated by Justin Schmitz.

The show, Synesthesia for the Times, is an affair of color and sound coming together, a call and response between the two. It plays with the idea that color and sound can enrich and bring vibrancy and wakefulness to our world. Using rhythms, layers and patterns, in both sounds and visuals, the show aims to provoke and weave the senses; to conjure a geographic landscape in the imagination of places and the spaces that can lullaby or wake us, seduce or jar us into the moment.

The show includes a sound collaboration by Tobias Kaemmerer and Ian McLaughlin.

Curated by Thea Liberty Nichols in conjunction with Home Room.

Paper, a delicate barrier, is the medium. The many illusions of artistic space are contained within paper. The surface is emphasized by incisions that simultaneously support, transform and destroy these illusions while revealing another dimension beyond. Light passing through the incisions fills an elusive and impermanent space with glowing reflective color, and forms silhouettes and shadows that mingle and react to the changing atmosphere and air currents.

Ever Epic is the result of Tanya Gill’s experiences in northern India where the relationships between ancient structures and the current patterns of daily life exist in a thriving continuum of history and custom. The piece Panorama, March 2005 to January 2009 underscores this continuum and fuses it with the common practice of using decorative tinsel to show importance.

Rise and Fall was inspired by the shifting and evolving uses of the ancient structures of New Delhi, India. The layering cycles of building the new over the old is common to all cities and Rise and Fall is a celebration of the changing nature of the dwelling through these cycles. The small domestic paper structures fit closely alongside one another, as if they are an overgrown garden.

Among these places, different moments of time exist alongside the present. This coexistence emphasizes the impermanence and continuum of life. Sensory contradictions, elusive experiences, and our ever present adaptability are revealed by the delicate paper constructions in Ever Epic.