VERONICA CROSS: HOMECOMING July 22–August 21, 2005

 
Homecoming implies return. The return is romantically associated with the male’s journey and rites of passage: the hero returns, the football team comes back, the return of the prodigal son. Veronica Cross borrows the term to mark a shift in perception as part of a more figurative passage of time. Utilizing feminine motifs, her exhibition Homecoming speaks of a personal reevaluation and dark projection of things to come. As an ultimate destination or temporary crash spot, the “home setting” that she creates has components both warm and fluffy as well as foreboding and ironic. Portraits of women rendered in nail polish on mylar with collage flank the windows and are held in place by scrollwork composed of mini-pads. There is a visual push-and-pull as the portraits are at different parts translucent, transparent or opaque. Peering within, through and beneath a world both soft and foreboding opens up to the viewer. Mirrored surfaces intensify and create possibility of what lurks beneath the surface. Diminutive staircases that lead to seemingly nowhere spring out of sacrificial offerings of libations comprised of fake nails and foodstuffs made from the most unexpected stuff on earth [Statement by the Artist].