Within Reach: Artists & the Built Environment

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Featured Artists: Gerardo Camargo, Megan Mueller, and Nicholas Wisniewski

Within Reach focuses on the physical, financial, and emotional relationships between people and the spaces they build. The artists whose work is included in the exhibition address the architecture of urban sidewalks, the labor that goes into the construction of single family homes, and the stories embedded in blocks of 19th century rowhouses.

Often working with found materials, the three artists in Within Reach create installation, collage, and intricate drywall carvings. By working directly with the materials that go into our everyday infrastructure, the artists emphasize the close physical relationship humans have with these environments. First and foremost, this infrastructure has been built to house and support human life. Beyond this immediate functionality, it often takes on other roles, being treated as a commodity, an investment vehicle, or a marker of social or economic status. These artists invite us to think expansively about the spaces we build for ourselves, how we value them, and how they shape our lives.

Within Reach: Artists & the Built Environment is curated by Blair Murphy, Senior Curator + Director of Exhibitions.

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