Solo Exhibition: Homes of Strangers opening May 3rd at Prairie Arts Center

​Solo Exhibition “Homes of Strangers” opens Friday May 3rd, at Prairie Arts Center in Princeton, IL.  Opening reception will be Friday May 3rd, from 6-8pm.  
PAC is located at 24 Park Avenue East, Princeton, IL, 61356.   The gallery is open 1-3pm on Saturdays and Sundays throughout the month of May. 
Homes of Strangers is a collection of new paintings primarily inspired by visits home to Princeton, IL.  The frequent visits home to be with family and spend time with aging parents sparked the desire to document this place and time.  The historic homes on the blocks seen on walks around my parents’ home become stoic acquaintances whom I have seen for a lifetime but yet they are still like strangers to me.  Homes like bodies, enclose whole universes of experience.  Despite attempts at empathy, we do not know the lives they have lived.  The works utilize observation of  people and places known and unknown to the artist.  Touching on notions of intimacy as well as the unknowable other represented in the closed doors and windows of the homes of strangers.   

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