SFA Project | Home Sweet Home: Opening Sept. 29, 2021
SFA PROJECT | HOME SWEET HOME
“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition”-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
September 29th, 2021 – October 23rd, 2021
OPENING RECEPTION: Wednesday, September 29th, 6pm–8pm
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Dear Friends and Art Lovers,
I'm pleased to share with you about an exhibition "Home Sweet Home '' opening at SFA Project next week on Wednesday, September 29, 2021. This exhibition features 5 artists: Jordan Buschur, Petey Brown, Michelle Farro, Elizabeth Reagh, and Natsumi Goldfish. I am so honored to be part of this show with such wonderful artists to attempt to give some form to this interesting theme about home. Exhibition about home is not always about recreating the "home" of someone or some time period, nor suggesting the concept of home, what's right and or wrong. We are all born from other humans and we all have heart, and home exists in the past, future, and in present, and even in our dreams. At the same time, I feel we never really own it (and if so, I guess it's the real shape of it). Although I am one of the artists in this show, I am also very excited to see this exhibition as an audience.
Three works, two windows and one self-portrait will be included from me. The windows are from my ongoing series called "Window Mereology" which I started around late 2011. I have been also making self-portraits this past few years, and one of the most recent ones is included in this show. It is one of the most recent, but not from life, it is a small study from my photograph which I shot in around 2014 at my old house in Jackson Heights, Queens, which was my first home in New York City.
I would love to share some details about each painting here. The diptych window, Untitled, the largest one from me, is still-life painting of objects I physically owned at that time when it was created, including the window frame, except the cat. Another window painting “Bird Flight and Osmanthus Fragrans 1/2” is half of a pair of paintings that are made to face each other. This time only half of them are in the exhibition because the other half is in my home in Tokyo. This work is made from my imagination and none of the objects exist in real life, however it was made based on my real experience with a window and a white cat in Philadelphia.
Please join the opening reception on coming Wednesday, September 29, if you can, and meet the artists and see the show in person.
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