corrine yonce

Lives and works in Winooski, VT, USA

Artist statement

The instinct to hold on to objects, photographs, and other forms of documentation is deeply embedded in my experience of housing insecurity. Like many of the people I work with through my housing advocacy, these material objects become symbolic of a place we can no longer visit. My proposed work considers the intimacies of home-space and the figures sharing that space. The paintings reach for domestic reference points both in content and in material, hanging like drapes and featuring puddling mops & reflective mirrors. I integrate household objects with a sense of humor, reverence, and shame. Like my experience of home, the works are messy and imperfect. The paintings compound fragments of memories and materials into an imperfect narrative of my home experience. Home is more than the physical structures we erect, but a sense of consistency and personal agency, a place for authentic unguarded expression. Nationally we are experiencing a housing shortage, one that my professional career has been forewarning of. The need for housing quickly simplifies how we talk about housing- the brick and mortar rather than the nuanced space of relationships, connection, and rest. This work stretches the viewer’s idea of what “home” means. Showing at TSA NYC would be a profoundly impactful experience for me as an individual, but would also set my work into a new context. Bringing my work out of my regional landscape pulls at the way the work is interpreted through a new, wider audience...

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