New Domestics

Allison Baker, Emma Beatrez, Beth Campbell, Christopher Chiappa, Hannah Epstein, Rose Eken, Mark Jay Freedman, Al Freeman, Nassem Navab, Jolie Ngo, Lee Noble

9/26/2020-1/3/2021

Franconia Sculpture Park is pleased to present “New Domestics”, the inaugural exhibition in the Mardag Gallery @ Franconia Commons curated by Franconia’s Executive Director & Chief Curator Ginger Shulick Porcella. This group exhibition explores themes of domesticity in contemporary art, blurring the lines between functional art, craft, and high and lowbrow art forms. Using the gallery as a platform to contemplate interiors and their intimate relationship to art and design, “New Domestics” celebrates artists from across the globe while examining the depth and breadth of sculpture as an expansive and diverse medium in dialogue with drawing and mark-making. Residing somewhere between the melancholy and celebration of homely obligation, the artists in this exhibition underscore a return to domesticity in the time of COVID-19.