Christina Tenaglia

"In March 2020, I left the Hudson Valley to be closer to my family during quarantine. Away from my home, studio, and wooded hiking paths, I walked the neighborhood around me and photographed, everyday, often the same streets over and over again. In such a heightened time of lines drawn around private and public space, I became engrossed in this in-between space - the exterior of homes, yards, plantings, fences, boarders—all attempting to define space and privacy while also playing the role of nature in a system that everyone seemed to accept, understand, and follow. I thought about care and neglect, access and denial, foreground and background, real and fake—home as a construct. These landscapes became simultaneously extreme and yet completely ordinary constructions of reality."

Tenaglia was in quarantine with her partner, Adrian Meraz, whose work also appears in this exhibit.