Sarah Morgan
January 21–March 24, 2012

The Homefront Gallery is pleased to announce “Childhood Homes,” an exhibition by Sarah Morgan that will open to the public on Saturday January 21 and will be on view through Saturday March 24.

This exhibition will comprise five sculptures recreating the homes in which the artist lived as a child.  “Childhood Homes” represents Morgan’s consideration of sculpture as a site for reconstructing lost domestic spaces.

In these works, Morgan has embraced scraps of discarded wood as building material, attracted foremost by their readymade forms and pre-existing colors.  Door panels, window frames, siding and wood beams capture and give materiality to the objects and emotions of her early childhood.

The artist has said, “The structure of each house is inspired by its actual architecture, but lacking points of entry, with no windows and no doors.  Executed in the scale of dollhouses, and made entirely of repurposed wood, the forms are dream shapes, the logic of which is for the floorboards to be turned inside out.”  Morgan’s houses are artworks for the imagination, elegant and poetic sculptures which explore notions of architecture, space, absence and memory.

The sculptures in this exhibition will be accompanied by photographs and drawings based on the houses in New Jersey where the artist grew up.  On view in the gallery will also be a wall sculpture titled, “I’m Abandoning My Fear of Abandonment.”

Sarah Morgan lives and works in Brooklyn.  She received her MFA from Yale University and her BFA from Cooper Union.

Opening Reception: Saturday January 21, 4–7pm