With textiles, embroidery, whittling, ceramics, collage, photography and 3D printing, HomeEc references the domestic realm in concept and craft. The participating artists hail from Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, and New York and contribute a variety of unique considerations of home, domesticity, privacy, tradition, belonging and displacement.

Ceramicist Summer Carmack evokes the tradition of afternoon tea, while Nick DeFord gently rebels against traditional notions of the home front in embroidery and image. Joe Ford's 3D printed cul-de-sac addresses privacy and surveillance. Paul Loughney's collages of floating millwork and destabilized architectural detail face Cara Sullivan's photographs of burnt interiors. Jenna Richards presents ghostly ceramic shells of folded garments - memorials to time and care - while Rowan Haug's paper quilt top floats on ambient air flow suggesting clothes drying on the line. A second work by Sullivan documents a performance in which she mimics the catnap and the charming collection of hand whittled spoons by Marty Haug deliver both a variety and unity of form.

Paul Loughney / Artist Statement:

My current artistic pursuits involve searching, excavating and reassembling fragments culled from consumer advertisements in contemporary magazines. This recent work depicts reconfigured images of interiors and explores the tension left behind by the absence of the figure. This absence, exemplified by the negative shapes and shadows, renders various instances of time and place and produces an entirely new narrative and presence. The interiors are intentionally reduced and lack most ornamentation, which underscores my interest in creating a nebulous expanse between familiar and unrecognizable forms, and in so doing, creates a sense of ambiguity and mystery.