LOS ANGELES — “Work from home” is a phrase that felt nearly like an oxymoron earlier than 2020. Work and residential have been disparate spheres; we had all however cordoned off areas for leisure from these for trade and manufacturing. Now, nonetheless, the more and more blurred boundary between labor and domesticity is an apt topic for inventive illustration. This shifting panorama is the topic of the California Institute of the Artwork’s postgraduate exhibition, which options 24 artists who, after graduating from the college’s Grasp of High-quality Arts program in 2024, make artwork of their home areas. What emerges are fraught, mysterious inquiries into what residence means to us because it more and more turns into a spot to eat, sleep, increase kids, relaxation, and work.
Left: Set up view of Work from House: A CalArts Postgrad Exhibition; proper: Chaska Jurado, “De colores” (2025), archival pigment print
Houses are each bodily and emotional areas, and their particulars — from childhood bedrooms to tiled flooring to photograph albums — present entryways to those unique worlds. Chaska Jurado’s “De colores” (all works 2025) incorporates a vivid archival pigment print of a vacant home inside with an open door and a swirling, turquoise — and really Eighties — linoleum ground. On an adjoining wall, this identical ground transforms right into a tufted rug, its thick, shiny yarn knotted into the identical nostalgic sample within the {photograph} it faces (“Translation”). Widespread home supplies each evoke and foreclose legible reminiscences: Jennifer Van’s “Resilience” is a black-and-white picture of an outstretched hand reaching towards the digicam, positioned in entrance of a fragile, cropped face. The cryptic {photograph} stretches throughout 12 chipped picket panels, the print interpolated by the strains dividing one slab from one other.
Set up view of Work from House: A CalArts Postgrad Exhibition, that includes works by Kyle Slevira
At residence, intimate attachments render even banal gadgets with an unpredictable, mysterious energy. In Amanda Teixeira’s “how to peel an orange or invisible acts of care,” skinny golden thread ties petal-like orange peels in a dangling lattice construction, as if every bit of potential compost have been really an ethereal relic. Simply past Texeira’s sculpture, Kyle Slevira’s “Flora” shows a white stalk that bursts right into a mass of discovered textiles, every bit of material painted white and curled to resemble the internal folds of a tulip or ranunculus.
A house can usually be like a black field: a system considered solely by way of what goes into it and what emerges from it, with none particulars of its inside workings. This idea is literalized in Katrina Parker’s “Expanse,” a tightly woven, hanging cylinder. An LED at its prime gentle emits a purple gentle that emerges on the opposite aspect as a purple illuminated circle solid onto the ground. In Jane Lee’s “Falling walls and floors,” an extended white sheet hangs from a skinny rod protruding parallel to a wall and swimming pools onto the ground. Lee’s gestural swatches of oil paint disappear into the absorbent, folded material, giving the looks of pastel shadows solid towards a drawn, backlit curtain.
Something made behind closed doorways takes on a brand new cost. Seeing such art work might need felt like snooping, had the precise that means of many of those pictures, sculptures, and drawings not remained appropriately obscure. Some issues aren’t meant to be seen — solely glimpsed.
Katrina Parker, “Expanse” (2025), cotton yarn, beading wire, beads, metal rings, LED gentle
Set up view of Work from House: A CalArts Postgrad Exhibition 
Set up view of Work from House: A CalArts Postgrad Exhibition 
Chaska Jurado, “Translation” (2025), tufted eco-cotton, wool, and acrylic yarn
Set up view of Work from House: A CalArts Postgrad Exhibition 
Set up view of Work from House: A CalArts Postgrad Exhibition 
Set up view of Work from House: A CalArts Postgrad Exhibition 
Set up view of Work from House: A CalArts Postgrad Exhibition
Work from House: A CalArts Postgrad Exhibition continues at CalArts Reef Residency (The Reef, 1933 South Broadway, Los Angeles, California) by way of March 22. The exhibition was curated by Andrew McNeely.
