A house is a structure that keeps us safe and provides comfort from the elements. However, the concept of a house has ever-shifting connotations. We see the house as status, as burden, as security, and as a symbol of accomplishment.

The concept for the international exhibition houseWARNING, began as a conversation between curators Tina Beifuss (Dresden, Germany) and Melissa Vogley Woods (Columbus, Ohio), while Melissa was in Germany as part of the Greater Columbus Arts Council Columbus/Dresden residency program in the fall of 2008. The onset of the US housing market collapse had begun, and their discussions centered on differences and similarities in cultural understandings of what constitutes a home: house vs. apartment; scale vs. convenience; comfort vs. location; urban vs. suburban; “ownership vs. renting.”

Just as every house contains a story of promise, of political and economical goals, and of private lives, the artwork by the 22 artists represented in houseWARNING addresses concepts of home and place and confronts each artist’s experiences and perspectives of living in cities such as Cleveland, New York, Dresden, Columbus, Philadelphia. houseWARNING provides a visual commentary on the spaces where we live, and attempts to forge a new understanding of a dwelling as a window to an era.

This exhibition will open in Columbus this August and then travel to Dresden in spring 2011 for presentation at geh8, an arts cooperative in Dresden, Germany.

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If your planning on attending the MAW: Hard Labor show, please step on over across the street to Image Optical to see over 30 new pieces by Stephanie Rond.

Image Optical : 846 N High St

Reception is during May Gallery Hop.  May 1 from 6 p.m.- 10p.m.

Curated by Jaime Hesper and music by CMC!

"eyesore #1" spray paint on canvas, red tape on wall

Stop by during the Sean Christopher Gallery during the May 1st Gallery Hop from 5-9:30 for the opening reception of Mother Artists at Work show “Hard Labor”. “Hard Labor” celebrates the blood, sweat, tears and joy of creating.

See and experience the art of

Melissa Ayotte
Sharon Dorsey
Cyndi Bellerose McAfee
Missy Conley
Monica Fillmore
Laura Garcia
Judy Chesnut Gerdeman
Mollie Hannon
Kristen Marra Marek
Harvest Rider
Catherine Bell Smith
Alissa Sorenson
Wendy Phillips Yeager
Tragic Stitches by Erina
April Sunami

Good times to be had and great art to be seen.

"Suture" by Wendy Yeager