Sarah Hobbs

OPERABLE ARRANGEMENT - Twilight Living Series Chromogenic Print, Wood Panel Room

2018

This C-Print by Sarah Hobbs is part of a series included in her show "Twilight Living," at Channel to Channel. It depicts a surreal indoor, forested oasis. A green lawn chair is unfolded on two strips of indoor turf, replete with a faux fire...

This C-Print by Sarah Hobbs is part of a series included in her show "Twilight Living," at Channel to Channel. It depicts a home basement that is covered in gold metallic tassle curt...

Douglas Degges (b. Shreveport, LA) is an artist and educator currently based in Mansfield Center, CT where he is an Assistant Professor of Art in Painting and Drawing at the Universi...

This C-Print by Sarah Hobbs is part of a series included in her show "Twilight Living," at Channel to Channel. In this photograph, an electric box with several protruding wires is ce...

Cutting the Cord by Patty Carroll is a 22 x 22 inch archival pigment print, available in an edition of 15 This sheet size of this photograph is 30 x 30 inches, and the image size is ...

Lorie Novak is an artist and Professor of Photography & Imaging at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Associate Faculty at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. She us...

The subject is the conflation of women and the home. In the previous “Anonymous Women: Draped” photographic series, a lone woman is hidden in a vignette within the drapery, where she performs domestic trickery. The photographs are vignettes of women hidden behind drapes containing one figure and drapery, with an occasional prop or piece of furniture. In this series, “Reconstructed,” the woman becomes part of her domestic trappings and activities. I am creating narrative, full-size, still-life images comprised of many objects. “Reconstructed Series” is a commentary on our obsession with collecting, accumulating designing, and decorating, inviting hilarity and pathos about our relationship with “things.” They are installations made in the studio for the camera that play with color, space, and scale, and use household objects as subject matter. We are making a life-size box in the studio as a substitute for the home. A mannequin substitutes for the woman, who is camouflaged among her domestic objects in the space. The final outcome is a photograph and/or a short video. Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago provided the basis of all of my work, and I continually seek to come to terms with it. I grew up when suburban life was idealized; the home was a place of perfection and harmony, free from the harsh realities of the city, without crime, or messy interiors, where everyone’s drapes and sofa matched, where people were normal, without dark little secrets. It was at a time when the “woman’s place...

Uta Barth 'Untitled (2005.A),' 2005 Laminated color photograph 20 x 30 inches (sheet) 20.25 x 30.33 x 1.5 inches (frame) Edition 12 of 20 Signed on label on f...