A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD

David Nolan Gallery is delighted to present our first online exhibition, “A Home at the End of the World,” a selection of works by gallery-and-adjacent artists that consider themes of architecture, domesticity, and interiority as central and ubiquitous concerns in these turbulent times.

Taking Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize Winning 1990 novel as a departure, the exhibition highlights both the physically structural and emotionally intimate moments that we no longer take for granted. As a novel, A Home at the End of the World was lauded for reimagining the constructs of “family” and “home” at the height of the AIDS crisis, resisting narrative resolution and prioritizing intimacy and human relationships as necessary messages of hope and healing.

The artists selected in this online presentation span multiple generations and cross disparate media and visual languages, depicting interiors and exteriors both fantastical and documentary, architectural and ephemeral, celebratory and in mourning, with scenes of comfort and war. The concept of home evolves and continues to be a source of inspiration, nourishment, anxiety, and endless potential for creativity, now more than ever.

This online exhibition features artworks by Franz Ackermann, Richard Artschwager, James Bishop, William Copley, Steve DiBenedetto, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Julia Fish, Neil Gall, George Grosz, David Hartt, Louis I. Kahn, Mel Kendrick, Barry Le Va, Alice Maher, Ciprian Muresan, Albert Oehlen, Serban Savu, and Gavin Turk.

Part I: A Home at the End of the World is one of three online exhibitions to be featured this summer.

Richard Artschwager

Since the 1960s, Artschwager made art based on a three-part relationship between the thing, its maker or viewer, and the space it occupies. His work explores the illusion of space by challenging preconceived notions of perspective and authenticity.

View Guggenheim Bilbao's video tour of Richard Artschwager's 2020 retrospective.

Julia Fish

Fish’s conceptual practice has for the past 30 years mined the architectural details within her home, a 1922 two-flat storefront on the north side of Chicago. Since 2009, special attention has been given to the thresholds (floor space within a doorway) in her home, often rendered in 1:1 scale and viewed from above, as both form and metaphor.

View Whitney Biennial - Julia Fish studio tour film

Albert Oehlen

Widely recognized as one of the preeminent post-war German painters working today, Oehlen has examined life through images, both popular and arcane and embraced countless techniques and references, with particular emphasis on collage. Oehlen’s collages on paper are equally irreverent and illuminating for their insight into the painter’s creative process and high / low cultural references.