This Must Be The Place (Home Pt. 2): Peggy Kouroumalos, Claire Milbrath, and Sherry Walchuk

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Claire Milbrath, "Poor Gray on Chair," 2015

oil on canvas, 28" x 22" photograph by Jacqueline Young

Lisa Kehler Art + Projects is proud to present This Must Be the Place (Home Pt.2), a group exhibition featuring work by Peggy Kouroumalos, Claire Milbrath, and Sherry Walchuk. Each artist has created work offering different, personal visions of what ‘home’ looks like. The exhibition includes 17 oil paintings and 8 pencil crayon drawings. This is the first exhibition for each of the artists with the gallery.

 Lately, home has become a contentious concept. Well, to be honest, it always has been. One’s sense of belonging is manipulated by many things; memories, a sense of familiarity, people, ideas, or geographic elements. Following This Must Be the Place (Home Pt. 1), where each artist who is either from, or currently resides in Winnipeg contributed artwork that specifically drew inspiration from their geographic location, Home Pt. 2 takes a more conceptual approach to the subject of home. Kouroumalos has created a series of oil paintings culling through the nostalgia of her youth. Music, magazines, books, posters, clothes: all are fodder for her paintings of what could have doubled as her bedroom in the early 90s.  A closet door plastered with posters of icons – Robert Smith from the Cure, Jesus and Mary Chain, Sid and Nancy –washed out and faded in the same way we now recall those memories. In another work, a five foot oil painting to be precise, an unmade bed is flanked by graffiti on the wall, a Ghoulies poster, and a mess of clothes scattered around the floor. A series of ten book jackets which were informative to the artist’s development in her teens have been reimagined, and stand as a sort of link between her younger self, and the creative mind she holds now. Nostalgia is clearly the key to Kouroumalos’ sense of home.