Join Curator Mike Calway-Fagen, and Education Consultant, Josiah Golson, in the Studio with Luke Severson Friday, July 10th at 5 PM EST. Luke will be a participating artist in the exhibition Living Room which will run in our 2021 exhibition season. Mike, Josiah, and Luke will be continuing their conversation about how their work reinforces and/or breaks down the themes explored in the exhibition.
ABOUT Luke:
“I grew up in northeast Iowa. I attended college at well-meaning schools in the Midwest
and, currently, live in Bellevue, Nebraska.
My wife, Ashley, and I are expecting a baby girl in September of 2020.
I teach Ceramics at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Luke Severson “
ABOUT LIVING ROOM
Living Room The group exhibition I've invited you to participate in, Living Room, runs from April 16-June 13, 2021. Here is a preliminary, introductory text for the exhibition: It is said human existence requires five things: food, air, water, sleep, and shelter. Of these five things four seem inarguable; essential things that are not just in-addition-to-bodies, they are bodies, they sustain bodies. But the fifth, Shelter, seemingly lies outside the person. But does it? Shelter in its most culturally ubiquitous form materializes as house. Houses are often represented in shorthand, in things like diagrams and tables, by simple shapes. The triangle atop a square is easily recognizable and functions as a symbolic catchall. But past the symbol’s monochromatic surface what is there? Dwellings are not so easily compartmentalized, and often what constitutes home has less to do with the physical structure and its constituent parts and more to do with what’s on the inside. Or more specifically, what goes on in the inside. So, if the outside is largely inert, the insides kick and scream, and grieve, and love, and laugh, and leave. They are continuous, in life, and well afterwards. They are Living Rooms.
A multifaceted and many-media(ed) exhibition, Living Room brings together artists from across the United States to explore it all; the living room, living in rooms, the tangible and many intangible ways that rooms live.