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101 
VOICE MAY 28, 1987 
ART 
Remember 
By Arlene Raven 
Fires also burn in the "HOME" show, a scintillating exhibition of drawings, paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by 82 artists organized by Faith Ringgold at the Goddard-Riverside Community Center (647 Columbus Avenue at 91st Street, through May 31). We can no longer speak of home without considering its internal violence and invoking homelessness. Works in this dichotomous frame of reference are often mercurial and explosive. 

Quimetta Perle's Home Is Burning, and the family heat is wildly painful. Artistic tempers are also hot over New York real estate (Howardena Pindell's Rambo Real Estate: (Homeless), Lucinda Piersol Feldman's Dear Faith), American Indians (Jimmie Durham's Not Much To See Here But Two Rocks), Nicaragua (Sue Coe's Nicaragua), incest (Clarissa T. Sligh's untitled work), and more.

A majority of artists, some of whom are now homeless, address homelessness. Mary Beth Edelson explains in a framed statement why she would not participate in the show: "I have decided to take the time and the money that I would spend on making a piece for this exhibition and to spend it instead on directly helping the homeless." Sarah Greer Kleeman, director of the arts program at Goddard-Riverside, responded in a letter by outlining the center's impressive programs for the homeless, including a reachout project inspired by "HOME," and offered Edelson the possibility of using any of them as a vehicle for the help she promised. 

Faith Ringgold's stuffed-fabric Three in a Bed is one of the few homely hearths in the show. Noah Jemison made a wistful House for the Homeless out of small sticks. As Amy Arbus wrote in the catalogue of artists' statements, "Everybody needs one."