The Jane Harstook Gallery's identity as both display and former domestic space echoes the duality of the cabinet houses. Architectural elements imply intimate interior environment, but white walls, gallery mounts and the absence of functional furniture separate it from it's past. The separation of past and present leads to a questioning of presence and absence, of permanence and impermanence, and of the familiar. I approach my work with these questions, searching for answers that lead to layers of new questions about what I know and understand.
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Poppenhuis: Rendering Domestic Display, 2006
Half-scale skeletal renditions of Cabinet Houses created by Petronella Oortman and Sara Ploos Van Amstel. Black clay. Installation shot: Jane Harstook Gallery, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, New York.
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