Collection: Ashley Andersen & Deborah Schoen - Preserves: Recipes for Domestic Rituals

A solo exhibition. Domesticity became the broader theme for this exhibition mostly due to it being a shared interest and anchoring part of both the artists’ practices.

Schoen’s practice approaches notions of domesticity from social and political corners. While Andersen is centered on the spiritual language of our ordinary lives. Both artists entwine in their similar impulses of engaging with history and pulling from these past narratives in a shared material language that often focuses on the found object. The intention of this show is to focus on the intersection of the invisibility of the home and the way that it impacts our societies. Invisible labor, where domestic routines are taken for granted, is a strong undercurrent to how Andersen and Schoen think through where the transcendent and the temporary encounter one another in these domestic spaces and practices. While the obvious boundaries of the show are situated under the “invisibility” of the house/home, more materialistic parameters inform their practice.

Andersen and Schoen have created work that explores the nature of “invisible labor” where they explore the materials of domestic rituals and how the social and spiritual intertwine.