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12020-03-04T15:40:08+00:00Alicia Peakerfa9ce5cf6cff641fdb630497ef4559c09dbe185831Elizabeth Catlett, Mother and Child, 1995. Onyx, 13 3/4 x 13 x 6 1/2 in. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Art by Women Collection, Gift of Linda Lee Alter, 2011.1.162020-03-04T15:40:08+00:00Alicia Peakerfa9ce5cf6cff641fdb630497ef4559c09dbe1858
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12020-03-04T15:39:54+00:00(not) at home1gallery2020-03-04T15:39:54+00:00 The home has long been the socially-sanctioned sphere for “women’s work,” used simultaneously to validate and devalue such labor. In these works, circuitous floor plans, disorienting spaces, and precarious kitchen utensils challenge the assumption of the home as an innocuous and hospitable space of femininity. Here the ordinary shifts to the uncanny as these artists inscribe the domestic with discomfiting meaning.
