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The Homebodies<\/em> series explores the personal spaces of community members, the artworks and interesting objects they\u2019ve collected through the years, and how those pieces live with them every day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former art and art history students of the University of Nevada, Reno will definitely know our next tour guide and the incredible impacts she’s had on young Reno artists \u2013 Brett Van Hoesen. Her collection is full of treasures from current and former UNR students, international works, as well as a few gems from Holland Project shows you might recognize. And every piece has a story, we love to see it! Big thanks to Brett for letting us peek inside this wonderful collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1. My study. I spend a lot of time these days in my study at home \u2013 a small room that is filled with books, jewelry making materials, and other treasures. These two works, one an old favorite by Alisha Funkhouser and the other a new purchase from Vogue Robinson, make the space feel fresh and joyful. Vogue\u2019s work is titled \u201cHappy Accident.\u201d She included a really sweet message when she sent the work last month: \u201cSo don\u2019t be afraid to make mistakes and give yourself as much grace as you give your students. <3\u201d I love that. Alisha\u2019s work, which I purchased at one of Holland\u2019s All In<\/a><\/em> shows, incorporates a 70s\u2019 style weaving with a vintage photograph of an alligator on a slide in St. Augustine, Florida. As a young kid growing up in Boston, I loved the stories of Lyle the Crocodile<\/em>. This work reminds me of Lyle, a fantastic character who gets into all sorts of trouble. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. In 2019, I was honored with a teaching award from Nevada Humanities. As part of the award, I received this beautiful mixed media painting by Fawn Douglas. Featuring three big horn sheep, it is titled The Children Will Lead Them<\/em>. The figurative sculpture is by Hanna Damasio, a neuroscientist and former colleague of my dad\u2019s at the University of Iowa. There\u2019s also a sweet little work in a red frame by Michelle Lassaline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. On a shelf in my bedroom. In 2005, I went to a performance by Jimmie Durham in Berlin, Germany. It wasn\u2019t well attended and was sort of a mysterious experience. At the beginning of the 30-minute-long performance, he walked around the audience with a trash bag of objects and asked us to each pick one. The theatre was dark, so you didn\u2019t really get a sense of what you had selected. We held the objects in our laps for the duration of the performance not knowing what role they might play. It was nerve wracking. At the end, Durham left the stage and disappeared. The audience waited and then we eventually walked out with our gifts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Hallway. Painting by Mose Tolliver and our cat Pearl. It\u2019s a long story, but in short, this work was gifted to me likely because the signature is screwed up. Normally Mose signed his work MOSET \u2013 a play on Monet. I met the artist and his girlfriend, depicted here, in the early 1990s at his house in Montgomery, Alabama. I think this is the first original work of art I ever owned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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5. Family room. The drawing above our fireplace is by Kim Musser. I served on her MFA committee at UNR. She surprised me one day with this generous gift and it has hung here ever since. I love the rhythm of this piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. The hearth\/hutch. The framed embroidered cactus is by Kaitlin Bryson. (Also purchased at an All In<\/a><\/em> show.) There\u2019s also artwork by my kids, vintage coasters from Germany, and some favorite ceramic pieces including a vase by Casey Clark and a cup by Aby Henry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. Living room. In this corner are three works by Nate Clark when his studio was at Cuddleworks. I especially love the \u201cpocket of air.\u201d There\u2019s also a photo diptych by Stephen Perkins, a grad school colleague from Iowa, which features his young daughter blowing a bubble and a close-up of Arman\u2019s pocket watch sculpture. There are also two small wood-mounted photographs of Berlin street scenes that I bought at the Mauerpark flea market, which make me nostalgic for the years I lived in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8. On the way to the kitchen. This wall features an eclectic group of small works from Mexico, Ecuador, Luxemburg, Turkey, etc. Most were gifts from family and friends. My mother-in-law, who is from Quito, Ecuador, gave us this framed set of hand-painted tiles (top right) that depict the dress and style of indigenous people from her homeland. These tiles were a gift from her uncle before she left Ecuador for the United States in the late 1950s. All four tiles are signed \u2013 I need to do more research on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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9. The eclectic collection of small work continues on this wall with a favorite hand-printed thank you card from my dear friend and colleague, Eunkang Koh. I wrote a letter supporting her green card application, before she became a United States citizen, in which I had to confirm her status as \u201can alien of extraordinary ability.\u201d I love how Eunkang interprets this bizarre nomenclature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10. Hallway. This is Ashley Westwood\u2019s Intruder<\/em>, a watercolor from her 2016 Holland exhibit Shadows in My House<\/a><\/em>. It looks especially ethereal in this space thanks to the vintage chandelier light fixtures we inherited from the previous homeowner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11. Desk in my study. I have an array of works on paper\/special issue projects that live together in this room. This batch includes: \u00a0Berlin-based friend April Gertler\u2019s Damp Patches<\/em>, Sophie Calle\u2019s My All<\/em>, Hanna Kaplan and Omar Pierce\u2019s Ritual Landscape II, A Clear Horse<\/em>, Devin Hosselkus\u2019 Expectations<\/em>, Nick Larsen\u2019s Belongings<\/em>, Nick, Omar, and Tim Conder\u2019s Oats Park Art Center exhibit catalogue \u201cI Wonder If I Care as Much,\u201d HT MacDiarmid\u2019s \u201cEvery Movement . . .,\u201d Omar and Ashley\u2019s \u201cIn a Broken World\u201d publication, Spitting Image\u2019s \u201cLove on a Terror\u201d 7\u201d EP, David Hecht\u2019s Scams<\/em> (1982), etc. My admiration for this kind of work speaks, in a way, to how I got into Art History in the first place by researching the Berlin-based, WWI-era Malik Verlag\u2019s small-run publications by George Grosz, John Heartfield, and Wieland Herzfelde. Reconnecting with my own collection gets me thinking about new ideas for my seminar on \u201cDada and the Anti-Art Aesthetic,\u201d which I will teach again at UNR in Fall 2021. Holland Project, thank you for all that you inspire!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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