As the Albany Museum of Art envisions a future in a new downtown location, we seek to find what makes a home comfortable. “Home” can be many things; its meaning often goes beyond just a physical space. It’s a place where you feel safe, grounded, and understood—a space where you can be yourself without pretense.
“Home” is often associated with comfort, familiarity, and warmth, whether that’s a sense of belonging in a community or the memories and routines that make you feel connected.
Within the AMA’s permanent collection, there are a number of works that may give viewers that sense of “home.” Whether it’s a depiction of the structures we modern dwellers would call a house, or an arrangement of objects one would find inside the home, or depictions of everyday life that happen in these places we consider “home.” This exhibition explores a yearning for gathering and that sense of familiarity.
