Hyperallergic Review: Ideal Home

Excerpt:

…Judy Chicago recently organized a New Mexico-based sequel to the collaborative work in honor of its 50th anniversary, with an accompanying exhibition of photography from the original installation. An image of Faith Wilding’s Crocheted Environment” was particularly striking, with its trippy web of acrylic yarn and sisal rope that forms a literal and conceptual snare. 

Kelly Carper, the Ogden-based curator of Ideal Home, similarly balances abstraction, figuration and strange materiality to examine the vessels that surround us. But while Womanhouse largely explored interiority and confinement, Ideal Home must inevitably study the swiftly multiplying cracks in the walls. For better and worse, our world is turning inside out….

Click here to read Hyperallergic’s full review of Ideal Home at Ogden Contemporary Arts

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