Monthly Musings: Delights of Home

As I return from a brief hiatus from writing Monthly Musings, we are now fully immersed in winter in the Northern Hemisphere. There is no doubt that the months ahead will bring immense challenges as we continue to isolate and fight the spread of COVID-19, but I am heartened by the fact that the Winter Solstice has just passed. Gradually, the days will become longer and the nights shorter as we move—albeit slowly—towards spring. After a year like 2020, this incremental change of seasons may also serve as a hopeful metaphor for the healing that awaits us in the new year. 

While we wait, I offer a virtual exhibition of images from Blue Sky’s online archive of past shows as photographic reminders of the quiet delights that are still possible close to home, now, in the everyday. To learn more about each artist’s work, simply click on the image in the slideshow. 

Wishing everyone a safe and happy holiday season.

Colleen Plumb, from Animals Are Outside Today (2014)

Ann Hughes, Untitled, from Blue Sky Ahead: Founders (2019)

Monika Merva, from Origins of Emotions (2015)

Irina Rozovsky and Manjari Sharma, from Talking Pictures (2019)

Patricia Lay-Dorsey, from Tea for Two (2016)

Diana Markosian, from Inventing My Father (2015)

Josh Smith, Fallen Arm, 2013, from The First Years (2019)

Vojtěch Sláma, from Wolf’s Honey (2009)

Karolin Klüppel, Steam, 2014, from Kingdom of Girls (2017)

Katrina Kepule, Untitled, 2012, from Sit Silently (2017)

Erika Morillo, Genealogy, 2014, from Umbral (2019)

Shawn Records, from Flaming Energy Ball (2013)

Rebecca Norris Webb, from My Dakota (2015)

Sophia Borazanian, Untitled from Spells (2015)

Svetlana Bailey, kitchen, 2016, from once there was there wasn’t (2018)

Susanne Wellm, from Inner Landscapes (2013)

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“Monthly Musings” is written by Exhibitions Director Zemie Barr and highlights work from past and present Blue Sky exhibitions that share a common theme. Thanks for reading.