HomeBody 

by Carson Whitmore & Rebecca Pempek

June 3 - 14, 2025

Reception: Saturday, June 14th | 6-8P

Community Sewing Circle (Open to Public): June 7th, 2:30-4:30P

More About HomeBody 

HomeBody presents a selection of works that chart exterior and interior landscapes, asking both what it means to be a body at home and at home in one’s body. Working across textile, paint, and printmaking, artists Rebecca Pempek and Carson Whitmore utilize the language of abstraction to consider the ways that gendered social relations shape our material experiences. Their works move between the realms of sculpture and image-making, plotting the slippage between experience and memory. Covering and uncovering, splicing, rejoining: both artists tend to cartographies that elude the present moment. Offering a vision of home/landscape as both tender and fraught, Carson and Rebecca seek to continually orient and re-orient our personal topographies and sense of place.  

More about Carson & Rebecca 

Rebecca Pempek is a mixed-media artist interested in rendering internal physical and psychological terrains. She earned her MFA in Studio Art at UNC Chapel Hill and her B.A. in Studio Art from Davidson College in Davidson, NC. Her current work utilizes her pelvic MRI scans to interrogate the history and mythologization of female pain. By layering and abstracting 17th-century reproductive anatomical illustrations with fauna imagery and gestural mark-making, she reclaims agency over the narratives of chronic pain and invisible illness. Before pursuing her MFA, Rebecca was a teaching fellow at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH. She has exhibited her work in North Carolina, New England, and Iceland. 

Carson Whitmore is a mixed-media artist working across textile, paint, and found objects. She employs surface and touch to triangulate the complex relationships between self, site, and history. Carson’s work responds to and often occupies spaces where public and private, wild and domestic meet. Based in Durham, NC, Carson has exhibited in many galleries across the Southeast, including the Durham Art Guild Gallery at Golden Belt, Sertoma Arts Center, Lump Gallery, the Duke Rubenstein Center, Wavelength Space, Wilma Daniels Gallery, Tiger Strikes Asteroid GVL, and Artspace, where she was a Regional Emerging Artist in Residence in 2020. Carson recently completed her graduate studies in studio art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

To learn more, visit:

Rebecca Pempek | www.rpempek.com | @rebeccapempek

Carson Whitmore | www.carsonwhitmore.com | @cool_._weather