Window Gallery:
Family Dinner
Danielle Corson
April 5 – May 24 | 2025
Within many North American homes, the kitchen table is a main gathering space whether for conversations, events, or mealtimes. In Family Dinner, I am investigating relationships through visual metaphors, evoking emotional memory, and looking at social interactions between objects and people by refiring commercially made ceramic dinnerware causing a radical transformation. Domestic objects, such as dinnerware are mass produced with thousands of exact copies existing in the world, allowing for mental and material worlds to become intertwined with the memories associated with them. I have over-fired the ceramic dishware to force the objects to go through an irreversible transformation and leave each object fundamentally warped, distorted, and in a state of dysfunction that emblematically speaks to different personalities and dynamics of family relationships through their precarious nature and sense of failure. Family Dinner sets a table, which exposes and foregrounds the levels of stress that surrounds family gatherings and dinner table dynamics.
Danielle Corson is based in Regina, Saskatchewan, and received her MFA from Boise State University in 2022. She holds a BFA in Visual Arts and BA in Art History from the University of Regina. She primarily works with ceramics and the manipulation and transformation of found objects. Currently, her work touches on many facets of memory, home, material culture, and the complex interconnections between these concepts. Corson has shown works within Canada and the United States including at the Mackenzie Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Thunder Bay, and the Neri Gallery.
Website: www.daniellecorson.com
Image: Family Dinner, Overfired dinnerware and dinner table, approx. 57″ x 31.75″ x 36″, Danielle Corson, 2022.
