Shelter, a show featuring work by Helen O’Leary (Incoming Visual Arts Fellow 2023) and Liliana Zavaleta opens at M. David & Co. Gallery this Saturday, April 23rd. It will be on view until May 14th, 2022, and there will be an opening reception on April 23rd from 6 – 9 PM. For more details, click here.
“In their mixed media sculptures and works on paper, both artists… address how and where we take shelter, seek shelter, find shelter; why we shelter things, ourselves, others; when we shelter from, shelter in, or shelter under. How does all this relate to personal history, belonging, memory, identity, and community? What is it about certain places or dwellings that allows us to call them ‘home’? If life leaves us not knowing where we’re truly ‘from’, or where we’d really call ‘home’, then what does it mean to feel pangs of homesickness? How might our essential experiences and concepts of shelter inform our views on politics, economics, and citizenship?”