Prospect 6: What To Eat, What To Drink, What To Leave For Poison

In her new series for Prospect 6, Brooke Pickett mines the relationship between women and the home. According to Pickett, home can encompass a domestic environment, the promise of safety, and a failed utopia. Bold, saturated colors are interlaced with checkerboard and floral patterns, hinting at kitchen interiors or cozy living spaces. Abstract shapes allude to quotidian household objects: doors, chairs, brick walls, and blankets. Pickett’s monumental paintings conjure an off-kilter sense of balance, as if the viewer or the objects are on the verge of collapse. Her interiors are vaguely familiar yet unsettling, prompting a closer look at the layered biomorphic shapes and overlapping colors. Here, Pickett hints at the myriad meanings of home and its daily exchanges in shaping our experiences.