Our Sometimes Home
April Werle — Solo Exhibition — Glacier Art Museum, Kalispell, Montana — June - September 2026
Our Sometimes Home is a multimedia exhibition about inherited grief and anxiety around cultural and racial awareness as two characters navigate home life, and internalize what 90’s and early 2000’s pop culture media suggests about what the ideal family looks like. How do children emotionally connect to the TV, and what do they internalize about American culture and social norms while their parents are working?
The exhibition features a series of large acrylic paintings following two black-and-white hand characters as they experience the anxiety and grief that linger from their absent parents, and how voyeurism becomes a form of escapism through watching families on TV. In each scene, the characters yearn for simplicity that they are already too complex to achieve.
Grounding the paintings within the gallery are murals depicting shadows in the form of distorted furniture that echo the visual distortion present in the paintings themselves, alongside a large-format poem whose stanzas move the viewer through the narrative arc of the exhibition. A silent animated projection quietly creates visual static, serving as a comforting presence that stands in for the parents we never see.
Our Sometimes Home invites viewers to reconsider the messages about family and culture absorbed in childhood, and to question how nostalgia can soften, distort, or obscure the truth within those memories.
The exhibition opens Thursday, June 18th, 5 - 7 pm at Glacier Art Museum in Kalispell, Montana.