David Nolan Gallery is delighted to present our first online exhibition, “A Home at the End of the World,” a selection of works by gallery-and-adjacent artists that consider themes of architecture, domesticity, and interiority as central and ubiquitous concerns in these turbulent times. 

Taking Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize Winning 1990 novel as a departure, the exhibition highlights both the physically structural and emotionally intimate moments that we no longer take for granted. As a novel, A Home at the End of the World was lauded for reimagining the constructs of “family” and “home” at the height of the AIDS crisis, resisting narrative resolution and prioritizing intimacy and human relationships as necessary messages of hope and healing. 

The artists selected in this online presentation span multiple generations and cross disparate media and visual languages, depicting interiors and exteriors both fantastical and documentary, architectural and ephemeral, celebratory and in mourning, with scenes of comfort and war. The concept of home evolves and continues to be a source of inspiration, nourishment, anxiety, and endless potential for creativity, now more than ever. 

This online exhibition features artworks by Franz Ackermann, Richard Artschwager, James Bishop, William Copley, Steve DiBenedetto, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Julia Fish, Neil Gall, George Grosz, David Hartt, Louis I. Kahn, Mel Kendrick, Barry Le Va, Alice Maher, Ciprian Muresan, Albert Oehlen, Serban Savu, and Gavin Turk. 

Part I: A Home at the End of the World is one of three online exhibitions to be featured this summer.