Living Room

Beauty Gallery at Studio Route 29

11.01.2025–02.01.2026November 1st, 2025 – February 1st, 2026

An install shot of the Living Room exhibition featuring a custom-made orange, pink, and red chair with an embroidered moon. A large, handmade cardboard sculpture resembling a grandfather clock and a series of moon and star-themed pillows hanging on the wall.

A white gallery space with lots of colorful objects in it. Theres a rug in the foreground with loose paintings of flowers, shelves with many pillows in many shapes and colors, and in the back two very tall curtains hanging with large color-fields painted on them.

A white walled gallery space, brightly lit, with many colorful obejcts. Theres a painted divan with pillows on it, two shelves with many different pillows of varying shapes and sizes and colors, some hanging on the wall. a corner of a colorful rug is visible and a bench with more pillows.

a bright white walled gallery space with many colorful objects. on both sides in the extreme foreground are a bit of vividly colored curtains. in the background is a tall grandfather clock, two chairs in intense colors, and a moon shaped pillow with small star pillows all around.

a brightly lit gallery space with vividly colored objects. on the wall are three paintings, one discernible as a moon smoking a pipe. there is a small coffee table with a checkered table cloth and books, a couch with bright cushions and a lamp. at left is a small sculpture of a purple flower on a pedestal.

an install photograph of the Living Room exhibition, featuring a custom-made blue, pink, and red checkerboard tablecloth by artist Eric Spencer. A ceramic pitcher, two mugs, a cutting board, a vase with orange flowers, a wine bottle, and a glass are arranged on the tablecloth. Behind the table, a framed painting by Michael Angelo Mangino is displayed. It is a blue and white abstraction with overlaid handwritten text that reads, "handshake perception sessions make over wardrobe lessons."

Come, rest your sparkling head on our elephant seal pillow!

Press your back to the smoke from a pipe in the mouth of the moon!

Lounge, you, in a Beauty Gallery transformed and transfixed in the place between fine and decorative we call our Living Room - there's space for you here.

Featuring painted, embroidered, and shaped pillows of all sizes, chairs and chaises, rugs and curtains, and a clock or two. Living Room includes work from most of the artists currently working at Studio Route 29. This show will grow during its run, so we encourage a second visit!

Shop the exhibition online here.

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