INSTALLATION, SCULPTURE, and PHOTOGRAPHY by
MONICA CANILAO, JAY NELSON, AHNDRAYA PARLATO,
and GABRIELLE WOLODARSKI

CURATED by LIBBY WERBEL (2005 Participant)

Is the place where you live comfortable? How does personal space translate into public view? In this show, four artists investigated the fantasies and vulnerabilities at play in our ideals of home.

Monica Canilao’s forts and enclosures look like structures built by a child with what she could find in her parents’ closet. Under close attention, these loose arrangements of paintings, drawings, collages, hung fabric and tea bags divulge an intimate view into how buildings and other edifices hold memories.

Jay Nelson’s tree houses installations are inspired by his experience of building and living in one during a stay in Hawaii. His houses exhibit the utility of lived-in structures, while still retaining a magical innocence. For Comfort, Nelson went beyond the tree houses he typically builds to create what he takes to be an ideal living situation: on the back of a bird!

Ahndraya Parlato’s photographs explore the ways in which people forge connections to others and to the world around them. She often depicts a slightly altered reality, highlighting uncanny relationships with haunting subtlety; and she works to create a tension between her own private experience and the undeniable breach of the viewer’s.

Gabrielle Wolodarski explores the limits and possibilities of articulating private
matters in public settings, by constructing domestic spaces in galleries and occupying them for extended periods.