Lawn Games and Other Domestic Hazards
Pogue Art Gallery, East Central University, Ada, Oklahoma
A two-person exhibition featuring artworks by Steven Lemke and Leticia R. Bajuyo

Exhibition Dates: January 15 - March 12, 2021

In this two-person exhibition titled Lawn Games and Other Domestic Hazards, artists Leticia Bajuyo and Steven Lemke consider the desire for domestic security as a foundational reference point for their investigations of traditional house forms and yard-scapes to include questions of indoor and outdoor living, home ownership, and land use.

Leticia Bajuyo transforms suburban stereotypes into symbols and visual markers that delight and at the same time spur a critical stance as she crafts an irony inflected dystopian vision of the suburban fantasy. As the evolution of technology and the growth of the global market produce an insatiable appetite for the next shinier, faster, easier mode of experience, the desire to acquire and to satisfy this appetite becomes a machine of desire that desires a machine. Her studio practice is fueled by compassion for these machines and a critique of consumer capitalism.

Steven Lemke examines the relationship between place and identity within residential space, contextualized in an era of domestic life increasingly defined by isolation, uncertainty, and precariousness. His interest in investigating these issues has led him to sites of class divide and sprawl throughout the United States and Europe. Fascinated by how material arrangement can simultaneously communicate order, stability, and anxiety, his sculptures and installations question the territorial, sociopolitical, and environmental web that we weave on the places we inhabit.

Pogue Art Gallery, East Central University
1100 East 14th Street
Ada, Oklahoma 74820