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Featuring works by Dominic Chambers, Lenz Geerk, Wangari Mathenge, Collins Obijiaku, Betye Saar, Taylor White, Brenna Youngblood and Zhao Zhao.

An exhibition built on the suggestive power of the hotel room, the works, and their staging, chart the ease with which people slip into different personas once they inhabit temporary spaces. As an in-between space that highlights the tensions between individuals in different settings, or changing moods evoked by the passing of time, the hotel room frequently implies the transitory nature of contemporary life.

Occupants pass their time in a liminal state, one of ambiguous seclusion and privacy, and, as such, spaces like these are not easily defined and are where anything can happen.

Brenna Youngblood Blessings, 2019

Brenna Youngblood
Blessings, 2019
Mixed media on canvas
48 x 36 x 5.75 in (121.9 x 91.4 x 14.6 cm)
 

Collins Obijiaku Untitled (Woman I), 2021

Collins Obijiaku
Untitled (Woman I), 2021
Oil on paper
39.37 x 31.5 in (100 x 80 cm)

Betye Saar Black Doll w/ Critters, 2021

Betye Saar
Black Doll w/ Critters, 2021
Watercolor on paper
20 x 16 in (50.8 x 40.6 cm) paper
22.625 x 18.625 x 1.5 in (57.5 x 47.3 x 3.8 cm) framed