About

Elizabeth Alexander creates elegant installations that reveal coded messages hidden in our domestic environment. She appropriates the accouterments of refined interior design such as wallpaper, upholstered furniture, and porcelain to upend our ideas about beautification and what constitutes a safe and happy home. By meticulously rearranging and editing the features of familiar decorative art objects, she prompts a wholesale (re)consideration of how we broadcast comfort, status, and affluence in our abodes. 

The show’s title, The Good Ones , refers to the fancy dinnerware reserved for guests …