Venue, Timing and Cost
This weekend-long solo exhibition displays paintings by Ellen Hausner. Originally from New York, she is now an Oxford resident.
The paintings in 'Anywhere You Are' examine what it means to identify with a place, to be situated in a physical environment, and to have a home. Can one be at home anywhere, or does home necessitate walls and a roof? Do we carry the sense of home within us? Is home always a tangible space or is it a state of mind? Home can be wherever we are, for the deepest place is the inner solidity of self; the process of finding an outer place is reflected by an inner surety. But the external place has a role to play in making a relationship to the land. The acceptance must be mutual: the place decides as much as the individual. It is a consensual agreement which involves commitment, like any relationship.
The artwork also explores entryways, portals, and going from one state of mind into another: travelling through many doorways only to end up at home. The paintings search for spaces behind and between the visible land- and cityscapes that make up our external environment.
Everyone is welcome!
Further Information
Gallery 8, Magdalen Road Studios
74 Magdalen Road, Oxford, OX4 1RE
January 26th-28th 2019
Opening hours daily 12-7
http://ellenhausner.com/
http://www.magdalenroadstudios.com/event...