McBride / Dillman is proud to present a new exhibition by Adrienne Elise Tarver. In her most ambitious installation to date, Tarver transforms the gallery into a richly layered mid-century domestic space inhabited by Vera Otis, the long-standing fictional subject of her paintings.
Vera’s story is entwined with intergenerational omens—images and objects that carry knowledge, warning, and memory across time, from past to present to future. Within this imagined home, Tarver conceives of the walls themselves as protective vessels, holding and transmitting these fragments across generations. In this way, the installation becomes not only a space for Vera, but also a threshold between eras—piercing into the past while opening toward the future.
