HOME
Located in the JP Morgan Chase Center for Creativity, the Big Idea Gallery is a family-friendly space that brings together works of art around a relatable, one-word theme. Previous themes have been PLAY, MOTION, FACES, and DOGS. The current installation, titled HOME, highlights a variety of works in CMA’s collection paired with hands-on activities designed by local artists to explore the idea of home. Amid the COVID-19 crisis, HOME takes on new and more personal dimensions. The guiding questions that loosely organize the gallery stand out as relatable, now more than ever as we all work to find our new normal during Ohio’s shelter-in-place orders.
Who makes you feel at home?
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SPECIAL EDITION
2020
Julie Blackmon’s playful family portrait empathizes with many of us who are balancing full-time parenting and distance learning with working from home. For single people who are staying-at-home solo and discovering the value of their own company, Kelli Connell’s piece Clothesline resonates at the moment. To create this image, the artist digitally manipulated photographs of herself to visualize a close personal relationship between two copies of her own image.
Julie Blackmon, Candy, 2007. Color inkjet print, 22 x 22 in. (55.88 x 55.88 cm) Museum Purchase, Derby Fund.
Kelli Connell, Clothesline, 2002. Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio: Museum Purchase, Derby Fund.
