Exhibition Details
Featuring approximately 90 works including paintings, textiles, photographs, and sculptures, this exhibition will explore the ways that artists evoke and construct ideas of “home.”
The title is drawn from a painting by Thornton Dial, Sr., (1928–2016) titled “Birds Got to Have Somewhere to Roost,” which will be among the works on view. Reflecting on this statement, the exhibition will explore Dial’s assertion about the importance of rest, comfort, and safety, while considering the poetic and unspecified nature of the word “somewhere.”
The title is drawn from a painting by Thornton Dial, Sr., (1928–2016) titled “Birds Got to Have Somewhere to Roost,” which will be among the works on view. Reflecting on this statement, the exhibition will explore Dial’s assertion about the importance of rest, comfort, and safety, while considering the poetic and unspecified nature of the word “somewhere.”
Additional Details
Taken both literally and metaphorically, Somewhere to Roost represents spaces where artists live and work, as well as places remembered, imagined, or dreamed. The exhibition will highlight experiences of immigration, incarceration, and housing insecurity, as well as visions of home that are playful, inventive, and unexpected.
Location
American Folk Art Museum
2 Lincoln Square
New York, NY 10023
Image: Detail from Joseph Warren Leavitt (1804–1833), Interior of John Leavitt’s Tavern, Chichester, New Hampshire / courtesy of American Folk Art Museum