Domestic Detritus Announcement
Domestic Detritus
January 28 - March 24, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday January 28, 5-7 pm
Brea, CA - The Brea Gallery presents Domestic Detritus
Open to the public Saturday January 28 at 5 PM, Wednesdays thru Sunday from 12-5 PM. Free parking available at Brea Cultural Center parking structure. Entry is $3, $2 for seniors, free for Brea residents and children .Opening reception will take place Saturday January 28 from 5-7 PM.
Our ideations of home, family, and social structures have evolved significantly in the past generation. Now in the wake of a global pandemic, domestic and societal roles have undergone colossal transformations - our homes became our sanctuaries, our jobs battlefields, our grocery store workers essential. When faced with the isolation and hardships of the last three years, the artists featured in this exhibition turned inward to investigate ideas surrounding time, decay, and the vestiges of domesticity. Though intimately personal, these creative explorations speak to the universality of these unprecedented times and present familiar glimpses of our own vulnerabilities and desires.
Domestic Detritus explores ideas of memory and ruin, in an effort to delve into contemporary social dynamics, shifting gender roles, and the assaults on contemporary womanhood and human rights. Sculpture, painting, video, and installation are included in this multi-media, multi-sensory exhibition - culminating in a strong voice of resistance, empowerment and victorious reclamation. Focusing on considerations of home, family, community, and the “essential”, these artists provide a window into their very personal lives, viewable through the universal prism of humanity that allows each of us to identify ourselves in these stories.
The artists brought together in this exhibition, from all over the country, explore these pandemic-driven shifts. Photographer Matthew Brabant documented his mother and mother-in-law staying with him through the pandemic and their blossoming friendship in his “Domesticity and Belonging” series; Contrasted against photographer Sam Comen, who looked outside of the home and at essential workers, from grocery clerks to emergency doctors, in his series “The Longest Shift.” Sarah Vaughn’s installation A Consideration of Time, was created over the course of quarantine, as a way of marking the days, and consists of over 200 felt rocks. These artworks and many more will be on display starting January 28.
