Dimmitt Contemporary Art is pleased to present This is the Place, a group exhibition featuring works by artists Katherine Adams, Steven Alexander, Myles Bennett, Ruth Borgenicht, Michael Craik, Ben Crawford, Tria Giovan, Dale Goffigon, Edite Grinberga, Gregory Hayes, Sean Kratzert, Ali Mcnabney-Stevens, Matthew Shlian and Amy Wright. This exhibition marks the debut of three new gallery artists, Katherine Adams, Ben Crawford and Amy Wright. The exhibition will be on view from Wednesday, May 20th through Wednesday, June 10th.
Art galleries are often experienced as temporary, white-walled environments, spaces designed for viewing rather than living. This is the Place reimagines the gallery as a home: intimate, layered, and shaped over time through memory, attachment, and accumulation. Bringing together a group of artists whose practices engage with sentiment, ritual, and personal archives, the exhibition transforms the gallery into a lived environment where artworks function not simply as objects on display, but as traces of a life continuously assembled.
Structured around the idea of a home, the exhibition moves through moments both ordinary and deeply personal: the warmth of a living room, the view from a window, objects resting on shelves, framed photographs gathered over decades that reveal how spaces hold memory. The works included span painting, sculpture, photography, textile, and installation, reflecting the ways collections evolve organically, shaped by experience, relationships, travel, nostalgia, and time.
Rather than presenting a unified aesthetic, This is the Place embraces the layered sensibility of a lived-in interior. Artworks converse across generations and materials, echoing how homes are built gradually through accumulation rather than design perfection. The exhibition considers collecting not as acquisition alone, but as an act of care: a process of surrounding oneself with objects that anchor identity, preserve stories, and create emotional continuity.
