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ICAExhibitions: 2023

Journey Around My Room

Photograph of a masculine figure looking away, seated at a round table set up for four people.

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About the Show

Journey Around My Room presents the work of seven artists who work in photography, painting, and textile to explore the intimacy of interior spaces.

In 1794, French writer Xavier De Maistre wrote A Journey Around My Room. In playful ruminations about his bedroom, De Maistre articulated details of his daily passage with excitement and attentiveness, revitalizing his vision for the everyday, and constructing place through joyful attention.

Taking a cue from De Maistre’s detailed treatise, the exhibition Journey Around My Room proposes that the act of articulating one’s space – be it home or studio, real or invented – is not only an act of attention to the everyday and the construction of place, but also an act of self-construction. Curated by outgoing Director of Exhibitions and Associate Professor Julie Poitras Santos, Journey Around My Room presents the work of seven artists who work in photography, painting, and textile to explore the intimacy of interior spaces.

Artists include: Gideon Bok, Oona Brangam-Snell, Henri Paul Broyard, Anne Buckwalter, Merik Goma, and Lori Nix/Kathleen Gerber

Gallery Guide

Gallery view of two paintings. The left depicts a cabinet against a green checkered background. The right depicts a green hand upon a pink table against a pink wall.
Gallery view of a hanging tapestry.
Gallery view of three large pieces on the white spacious walls.
Two paintings, each different views of the same orange room.
A painting of a green hand reaching towards a green fish with a zippered mouth against a speckled pink table and a pink wall patterned with white hands.
A depiction of a cluttered violin repair shop overlooking decaying buildings.
Photograph of a masculine figure looking away, seated at a round table set up for four people.
A painting of a brown cabinet with yellow highlights against a green checkered background.
Painting of a messy workspace with orange walls. A figure squats facing a chair.

Press

Portland Press Herald: Artists explore themes of euphoria, home in two Portland shows