Home Sweet, Somewhere
September 1 – November 21, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: September 17, 5-7pm
Featured Artists: Elizabeth Alexander, Seth Clark, Kevin Frances, Eben Haines, and Patrick Jacobs
Step inside Home Sweet, Somewhere, a contemporary exploration of the spaces we call home. This exhibition invites the viewer to see how the architecture around us becomes a vessel for memory, emotion, and our subconscious. The layered complexities of the places we inhabit evoke a sense of lived experience, reflecting and shaping our identities as they evolve over time. Though “home” is personal, carrying a unique meaning for each individual, the emotional bonds we form with our surroundings are a shared aspect of the human experience.
The five artists on view examine facets of home, from familiar objects and rooms to hidden corners. Each uses their practice to unravel and reimagine various domestic objects and scenes, creating vignettes that unsettle our expectations and perceptions of what is familiar. Floating chairs, small portholes that open onto vast landscapes, and anthropomorphic dwellings are just a few examples of the disarming illusion and subtle unease that the artists toy with. The longer you linger, the more the spaces reveal themselves to be just slightly askew or on the verge of change, reminding us that beneath the veneer of sweetness and comfort, home conceals deeper histories, emotions, and contradictions.
Elizabeth Alexander, and you didn’t even know enough to be sorry (detail), 2022-2026, Wallpaper made of digitally collaged gouache paintings, cast paper, and adhesive, dimensions vary.)
Seth Clark, Wanderer 15 (detail), 2025, Collage, charcoal, pastel, acrylic, and graphite on wood, 48” x 48”. Image courtesy of Paradigm Gallery + Studio.
Kevin Frances, Evidence of Absence, 2021, Woodcut Japanese technique, 20″ x 30″, Edition of 10
Eben Haines, Millennials Killed the Dinner Industry, 2024, Oil on linen, 48” x 48”, Image courtesy of the artist.
Patrick Jacobs, Window with View of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Gowanus Heights, 2018, Diorama viewed through 7.5 in. window, Styrene, clay, paper, foam, wood, acrylic, steel, lighting, BK7 glass, 20” x 26” x 21”.
Lamont Gallery programs are supported in part by the Michael C. Rockefeller ’56 Visiting Artists Fund.