The current exhibition at the Front Room announces itself as a domestic space inside the Museum Walls. The three artists – Zipora Fried, Margarete Jakschik and Sam Windett – contribute individual works that come to collectively resonate impressions of intimacy and domesticity. Upon entering the Front Room, Fried’s black knit dining room table fills the space with sensations of dinner-table etiquette while its wool covering mystifies the art-object’s connotations. Margarete Jakschik presents a collection of photographs that evoke the unceremonious but majestic sensibilities of American iconography. The paintings of Sam Windett display his deep appreciation for the still-life tradition, recalling tropes of Modernism in their small but intense forms.
The exhibition closes October 31, 2010. Visit www.camstl.org for more information.