The Spaces We Call Home: Landscapes
September 2024–February 2025 | DePaul Art Museum, Chicago | Group show | Curated by Marin R. Sullivan

Bits of color, twisted form, faded words—stimulation is inspiration. The mode of operation is that of a street photographer, constantly noticing the unnoticed: the decrepit, the dilapidated, the dismissed.

Our eyes scan, automatically and systematically, as they move through the city, waiting for delight, for curios to reveal themselves. Whimsy and happenstance are key. When found, these trash treasures are photographed or brought back, examined, and then set aside until one day partnered or grouped with other finds.

Such is the process: hunting and gathering, thinking and making. The eyes, the brain, the heart—they don’t switch off. They invariably detect, desire, and direct the hands, continually compelled.

What is a landscape but fields of color and texture that form spaces for contemplation, reflection and repose. Warm colors and cool colors, neutrals and brights—a feast for sight and soul.


Gallery tour with the artists on February 6, 2025, 6pm.
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