Jessi Reaves: Kitchen Arrangement

Kitchen Arrangement will offer an object-based experience that is an expression of the home’s primal epicenter: a social space essential to living and an area full of relational potentiality. Arguably the most experiential site in the house, the kitchen has also evolved into a particularly feminine space. As shown here, debate, inquiry, community, and experimental freedom ably congregate, so art and life can comfortably coalesce.

Jessi Reaves’s sculptures impersonate and inhabit functional design objects—sofas, chairs, ottomans, tables, bookcases, lamps, cabinets, and coat racks—as she imaginatively remasters existing furniture or composes her own to underscore an inherent performativity. The unlikely union of disparate materials, steel, drift wood, saw dust, zippers, plywood, and car fenders, endows her charismatic objects with signifying temperaments that span the shapely and sensuous and the misshapen and contorted.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.