The Names We Give to Home: Works by Lelia Byron
On view October 7 - December 4, 2026
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Image: Lelia Byron, Homegrown, oil on canvas, 5' x 7', 2023.
The Names We Give To Home grew out of conversations with approximately 40 residents of Springfield, Ohio, about the topic of “home.” The resulting paintings function as visual narratives showing how participants understand “home” as sething continually created through relationships, memory, care, and collective action. The paintings move between intimate and collective experiences: the creation of a community food garden, the restoration of a historic Underground Railroad safehouse, the sustaining role of creativity in everyday life, and a couple’s commitment to community through education and public service. Together, these stories reveal how larger social and economic forces are experienced through neighborhoods, families, friendships, and acts of mutual care.
The questions raised here extend beyond a single city, addressing themes relevant to communities across the U.S. that are navigating the effects of deindustrialization while actively imagining and building new futures. The exhibition asks what home can mean today—and what becomes possible when people imagine it together.
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About the Artist
Lelia Byron is an interdisciplinary visual artist working at the intersection of art and human rights through research-based, investigative, and community-rooted projects. In her work, painting functions as both a method of investigation and a visual narrative, where stories, testimonies, photographs, and material traces are gathered, layered, and reworked. Lelia’s practice examines how large-scale issues manifest in the personal lives of individuals. Moving beyond broad political histories, her projects often focus on how people confront forces beyond their control—and on the personal and emotional dimensions often not told by official historical narratives.
Lelia has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University and a Master’s in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts (University of the Arts London).
Image: Prisma Anna Maria Andrade, The Andrades, Jacquard weaving with cotton and dyed birch wood, 25"x 27", 2026.
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About the Artist
Prisma Andrade is a Chicago-based textile artist whose work blurs the lines between painting, photo, and textile, creating colorful imagery one can see and touch. Her work deals with immigration as an act of trauma, examining her family’s journeys between Honduras, Spain, Texas and Chicago, stitching together the remnants of familial and cultural history which the descendants of immigrants are left with. She uses cultural craft traditions of embroidery and quilting, once reserved to the domestic sphere of her female ancestors, in conjunction with modern traditions of digital weaving and dyework to confront the gender roles of the Latin American family structure. Throughout her work, Andrade reimagines her familial archive, including works of art done by her family members, as a ritual act to honor her family members across the diaspora and craft herself into place.
Andrade received her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fiber and Material Studies in 2026. She is a recipient of the SAIC Presidential Scholarship (2022), SAIC Contemporary Practices Scholarship (2023), and won Surface Design Magazine’s Outstanding Student Award in 2025. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, TX), Bridgeport Art Center (Chicago, IL), Evanston Art Center (Evanston, IL), and solo exhibitions at Art City (Chicago, IL) and SAIC Incubator Gallery.