Curator / Matthew Mitros

Home Sweet Home

Ross Sawyers
Brent Sommerhauser
Laura Ward

July 5 – 29, 2007
Reception / Thursday, July 5, 6–9pm

Home Sweet Home explores the physical and psychological implications of the idea of home.  This curatorial project will consist of three artists who approach issues and notions of the domicile in three distinct ways.

Ross Sawyers’ minimalist renderings of the internal spaces within architectural structures trigger psychological rifts in the idea of a home being a place of human interaction, occupancy, and order.  The spatially open and illogical geometry of his structure compositions suggest abandonment and irreverence to domestic architectural designs, which are often predicated by utility and function.

Laura Ward sculpts with objects and patterns appropriated from the detritus of abandoned houses.  These discarded elements serve as a map (or window) into the past of anonymous lives while also allowing the viewer to project a level of nostalgia from their own lives onto the object.

Brent Sommerhauser’s work is a response to the utility and function of objects in a domestic setting (i.e. dressers, chairs, tables, etc.). He deconstructs then reassembles these objects to alter their function or use from the original. A second component of his work is his ongoing reassignments of Gordon Matta-Clark’s sculptures and photographs. In this work Sommerhauser digitally reconstructs and patches Matta-Clark’s pieces to make them complete again.