Stephanie Lynn Rogers: Make Yourself at Home

Make Yourself at Home transforms a Rochester Art Center gallery into a domestic space, with artist-designed and altered furnishings including throw pillows, curtains, and a brocade couch.

Stephanie Lynn Rogers embraces both the beautiful and the grotesque aspects of nature. In this installation of photography and fiber-based work, fungi, worms and ants take their places alongside flowers, foliage and butterflies. The imagery touches on wide-ranging themes, including seasonal cycles, ecology, and the inevitability of decay, while remaining grounded in the landscapes of the upper Midwest.

Artist’s Statement

The images of plants, animals, and landscapes in our domestic spaces say a lot about how we perceive nature. I am interested in which organisms are included and what is left out. I explore this by printing my own photographs onto fabric, by collaging them into repeat patterns, and by using mending techniques to alter existing fabrics.

I am equally interested in what gets considered art and what doesn’t. Make Yourself at Home is an invitation to interact with art in a different way as you touch it and sit on it.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website