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February 7 - February 24, 2013

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337 Shotwell St San Francisco, CA 94110
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Homing Migrating Houses by Todd Laby
Homing: An Art Installation and Exhibition, featuring work by Todd Laby, with Audrey Heller and Pamela Merory Dernham Opening reception, Feb 7, 7pm-9pm Closing reception, Feb 23, 7pm-9pm Exhibition Feb 7-23, 2013 Wed 11:30-1:30 and Thu-Sat 3-7 StoreFrontLab 337 Shotwell Street San Francisco, CA In February, StoreFrontlab welcomes visual artists Todd Laby, Audrey Heller and Pamela Merory Dernham, whose provocative installation and exhibit will conclude our inaugural season. Visual artists Todd Laby, Audrey Heller, and Pamela Merory Dernham come together to wade through the messiness of how we set our bearings when our notions of origin and destination are in reality mere approximations. Through sculpture and installation the artists explore unsettled notions of returning to origin, memory as approximation, positioning and finding one's bearings. Laby's installation "Migrating Houses" asks what happens when the ideal of home is uprooted. He has sculpted a herd of wooden houses, lifted skyward on spindly legs, teetering on a steel ground that no longer offers a way for them to plant their foundations. Over several weeks, the houses will journey through the StoreFrontLab. Are they seeking a permanent location? Are they leaving behind an environment that no longer sustains them? Laby's "Migrating Houses" provokes the viewer to consider our ideal of home, whether it be dwelling, town or country. Do we inhabit the world of this uprooted herd? Laby and Audrey Heller's collaboration "Moving Boxes" invites the viewer to peer into an array of boxes, representing the objects and emotions that we pack and bring with us from place to place. Dernham's steel wire figures are a metaphor for her rebuilding of her family, her relations, and the connections that she lost. As Dernham's figures bear witness to the migration of the houses possible answers to these many questions resonate between them. LOCATION: StoreFrontLab 337 Shotwell St San Francisco, CA, 94110 MORE INFO: Website: http://www.storefrontlab.org/ Email: info@storefrontlab.org StoreFrontlab, located at 337 Shotwell Street in San Francisco's Mission District, is a year-long exploration of storefronts as places of community, creativity and local industry.