Curated by Larry Lee
In the exhibition, Steinhiser presents large-scale paintings in which the house appears as a recurring, unstable form—tilting, floating, dissolving, resting on clouds, erupting, or wrapped in hair. Interior and exterior collapse into one another; structures that once signaled shelter now behave as living images that gather the dispersed fragments of inner life.
Alongside the painted houses, animals inhabit the interior spaces. Drawn from daily encounters, poetry, song, mythology, and ornamental forms, they accumulate into a personal symbolic language—not simply placed within the works but dwelling in them, moving through rooms. They function like figures within a dream: familiar and estranged, carriers of memory and instinct.
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