Open House: Art, Craft and Domesticity was presented by MICA's Exhibition Development Seminar (EDS) in Decker Gallery from February 3 to March 6, 2022. The show opened as campus was still gradually reopening in the wake of the ongoing global pandemic, and drew attention to the relationships between individuals, home environments, and everyday household objects.
Open House featured pieces by 12 artists working in fine art, craft, and functional design. Using textiles, furniture, and ceramics—as well as newly-commissioned sculptures, site-specific installations, and digital graphics—the show invited visitors to consider how they live with and among objects made by human hands.
“We selected the artists in Open House because of their relationships to functional objects and the everyday,” Victoria Cho ’22 (Painting BFA), a senior in the class, said. “After more than a year of learning and working from home, we all think about labor, art objects, and the boundaries between people and places differently—and while this show doesn’t directly address the pandemic per se, it does reflect that changed perspective.”
Open House featured pieces by 12 artists working in fine art, craft, and functional design. Using textiles, furniture, and ceramics—as well as newly-commissioned sculptures, site-specific installations, and digital graphics—the show invited visitors to consider how they live with and among objects made by human hands.
“We selected the artists in Open House because of their relationships to functional objects and the everyday,” Victoria Cho ’22 (Painting BFA), a senior in the class, said. “After more than a year of learning and working from home, we all think about labor, art objects, and the boundaries between people and places differently—and while this show doesn’t directly address the pandemic per se, it does reflect that changed perspective.”
In order to highlight the complicated relationships between individuals and household objects—created through the collision of function, physical wear, and aesthetics--Open House: Art, Craft, & Domesticity showcases twelve artists who subvert everyday materials and establish their rightful place in the art world. Representing traditions of old and new, from fiber and found objects and video installation, these artists reinterpret home and gallery spaces through unconventional, highly personal approaches. The exhibition questions the cultural dissonance (or lack thereof) between fine art, craft, and the functional, and invites viewers to consider ideas of labor and leisure in a contemporary art context.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Nearly all of the artists in the show live in or near—or have ties to—Baltimore.
They include:
Head to https://www.mica.edu/events-exhibitions/open-house-art-craft-and-domesticity/ to learn more about each of these artists.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Nearly all of the artists in the show live in or near—or have ties to—Baltimore.
They include:
- Multidisciplinary artist Erick Antonio Benitez ’15 (Painting BFA)
- Fiber artist Loring Boglioli
- Baltimore design studio Crump & Kwash
- Sculptor and current MICA student Josh Frick ’23 (Interdisciplinary Sculpture)
- Sculptor Kellie Gillespie ’21 (Rinehart School of Sculpture MFA)
- Multimedia papercut artist Annie Howe ’01 (Fiber BFA)
- Plywood sculptor David Knopp
- Ceramicist Daeun Lim (Busan, South Korea)
- Fiber artist Emily Luking
- Botanical artist Emily Paluska (Washington, D.C.)
- Multidisciplinary artist and ceramicist Vanna Ramirez
- Assemblage artist Leo Sewell (Philadelphia)
Head to https://www.mica.edu/events-exhibitions/open-house-art-craft-and-domesticity/ to learn more about each of these artists.
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The Class: David Ayala, Victoria Cho, Ara Ko, Marshall McGrigg, Elina Press
Professor: Jeffry Cudlin Advisors and Guests: George Ciscle, Andrea Dixon, Jeffrey Kent, Christine Miller, Amelia Szpiech Installation Photos: Vivian Doering |
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