ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
In 1990, with the help of his first digital camera, artist David Hockney produced the photo series 40 Snaps of My House, providing an intimate look inside the life the artist created for himself inside his Hollywood Hills home.
For this exhibition, we invited you to create your own version of Hockney’s project.
© David Hockney
During the past 2+ months of the current COVID-19 crisis, many of us have been forced to self quarantine in our own homes. This has resulted in re-examining our own spaces and perhaps viewing our surroundings in a whole new way. For most of us who have been in our homes for many consecutive days, these rooms are familiar to us, but the circumstances are new. Snaps From My Home offered a creative opportunity to blend the familiar with the unfamiliar.
Artists were prompted to notice spaces in their home. Did they see repetition, light on the patio, repetition of a color? They returned to similar items, and found new ones. They changed their point of view. They got creative in seeing ‘home’ in a new light.
ABOUT THE CURATORS
STACEY EVANS grew up in Waynesboro, Virginia, and now lives and works as an artist, educator, and commercial photographer in Charlottesville. She studied photography at VCU and received a BFA in photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Evans most recent exhibition, This Familiar Space (originally planned for Second Street Gallery’s Dové Gallery space), is currently on view online. A 3-part, virtual workshop was held in conjunction with the exhibition in May of 2020, where participants had the opportunity to experiment with their own 40 Snaps, based on the Hockney work. After seeing the results, Evans was inspired to approach Second Street Gallery about turning the workshop assignment into a comprehensive virtual exhibition.
KRISTEN CHIACCHIA is the Executive Director and Chief Curator of Second Street Gallery and has been with the gallery since September of 2016. Prior to joining Second Street Gallery, Ms. Chiacchia was Director at Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art in New York, where she organized exhibitions of work by Ed Ruscha, Joan Mitchell, Hew Locke, Andres Serrano, Farideh Lashai, Erik Benson, and a number of group shows featuring Abstract Expressionist Masters. Ms. Chiacchia received her BA in the History of Art & Architecture from the University of Pittsburgh. She earned her MA in Modern and Contemporary Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies at Columbia University. She also completed a Certificate in Appraisal Studies in Fine and Decorative Arts at New York University.
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