LOS ANGELES — “Work from home” is a phrase that felt virtually 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 creative 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 Positive Arts program in 2024, make artwork of their home areas. What emerges are fraught, mysterious inquiries into what dwelling means to us because it more and more turns into a spot to eat, sleep, elevate youngsters, relaxation, and work.
Left: Set up view of Work from Dwelling: A CalArts Postgrad Exhibition; proper: Chaska Jurado, “De colores” (2025), archival pigment print
Properties are each bodily and emotional areas, and their particulars — from childhood bedrooms to tiled flooring to picture albums — present entryways to those unique worlds. Chaska Jurado’s “De colores” (all works 2025) contains a vivid archival pigment print of a vacant home inside with an open door and a swirling, turquoise — and really Nineteen Eighties — linoleum flooring. On an adjoining wall, this identical flooring transforms right into a tufted rug, its thick, brilliant yarn knotted into the identical nostalgic sample within the {photograph} it faces (“Translation”). Frequent home supplies each evoke and foreclose legible recollections: Jennifer Van’s “Resilience” is a black-and-white picture of an outstretched hand reaching towards the digital camera, positioned in entrance of a fragile, cropped face. The cryptic {photograph} stretches throughout 12 chipped wood panels, the print interpolated by the strains dividing one slab from one other.
Set up view of Work from Dwelling: A CalArts Postgrad Exhibition, that includes works by Kyle Slevira
At dwelling, 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 each 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, each bit of cloth painted white and curled to resemble the interior folds of a tulip or ranunculus.
A house can usually be like a black field: a system seen solely when it comes to what goes into it and what emerges from it, with none particulars of its inner workings. This idea is literalized in Katrina Parker’s “Expanse,” a tightly woven, hanging cylinder. An LED at its high mild emits a purple mild that emerges on the opposite facet 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 paintings might need felt like snooping, had the precise which means of many of those images, 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 mild
Set up view of Work from Dwelling: A CalArts Postgrad Exhibition 
Set up view of Work from Dwelling: A CalArts Postgrad Exhibition 
Chaska Jurado, “Translation” (2025), tufted eco-cotton, wool, and acrylic yarn
Set up view of Work from Dwelling: A CalArts Postgrad Exhibition 
Set up view of Work from Dwelling: A CalArts Postgrad Exhibition 
Set up view of Work from Dwelling: A CalArts Postgrad Exhibition 
Set up view of Work from Dwelling: A CalArts Postgrad Exhibition
Work from Dwelling: A CalArts Postgrad Exhibition continues at CalArts Reef Residency (The Reef, 1933 South Broadway, Los Angeles, California) by March 22. The exhibition was curated by Andrew McNeely.
