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Dorothy Frey: Close To Home
December 31, 2024 @ 11:00 am - January 25, 2025 @ 6:00 pm
Free
Exhibition Dates: December 31, 2024 – January 25, 2025
Opening Reception: Sat, January 4, 2025, 3PM-6PM
Closing Reception: Sat, January 25, 2025, 3PM-5pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11PM-6PM (Closed January 1st.)
Bowery Gallery presents Dorothy Frey’s second solo show, “Close to Home” from December 31, 2024, through January 25, 2025.
Dorothy Frey’s work explores the connection between memory, place, and personal history through intimate depictions of home interiors and still life arrangements. This series focuses on spaces that offer solace and familiarity, capturing vignettes of furniture and keepsakes passed down through generations. These objects—moved from home to home throughout her life—carry deep emotional significance, inspiring Frey to manipulate light and color to emphasize the relationships between past and present.
Known for landscape paintings inspired by her family’s multi-generational farm, Frey has retreated indoors to document the domestic scenes that define her current environment. Her paintings celebrate the beauty and banality of the everyday, where heirlooms and collectibles become not only fixtures of the home but symbols of connection, legacy, and belonging. Through this body of work, Frey reflects on the quiet, enduring presence of personal history within the spaces we inhabit.
Founded in 1969, Bowery Gallery has been showing contemporary art of the highest quality for more than six decades. Bowery Gallery is a cooperative, founded by artists and directed by the collective decision making of its member artists. From its beginnings, Bowery Gallery has been a force for the expansion of art’s traditions in a venue unconstrained by commercial pressures. Named after its original location, Bowery Gallery is now located in the heart of the Chelsea art district.
General information:
Bowery Gallery
547 West 27th Street, Suite 508 (5th Floor)
New York, NY 10001
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm
646-230-6655