Starion Bank Gallery
Homing is a solo exhibition featuring the work of regional multidisciplinary artist Alicia Hauff. This body of work examines the disconnect between contemporary life and the ecological, ancestral, and somatic systems that have sustained human and non-human communities. Homing refers to “an ability to return to a place or territory after traveling a distance away from it.” The foundational aspects of home include a sense of rootedness, connectedness, belonging, safety, and mutual care. Homing is a re-membering, recovering, and re-commitment to the greater whole of interconnected, interdependent life. Re-membering relates to the embodied act of becoming whole, putting ourselves back together again in care and community. For Hauff, homing begins with getting to know those beings all around us, every day.
Through fluid acrylic washes, graphite portraiture, and organic materials gathered from the land, Hauff guides viewers into a practice of attunement: noticing the languages of birds, the cycles of wildflowers, the shifting textures and energies of place. Her work invites viewers to slow down, listen, and rediscover the animacy of the world, ultimately reminding us that our bodies know the way home.
Since transitioning from community nursing to a multidisciplinary art practice in 2021, Alicia Hauff has been re-rooting and re-membering ancestral ways of moving and sensing in today’s fast-paced society. She brings her healing science background into her current work to mend our connection to the land, and ultimately, the connection to our wildest, most natural selves. Her work spans painting, drawing, foraging-based processes, and interdisciplinary research, often incorporating materials and observations gathered directly from the environments she studies. She lives in Fargo with her husband and three sons, which she affectionately refers to as the Hauff fraternity.
Gallery admission is free every day of the week. Generous support provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program; the North Dakota Council on the Arts, which receives funding from the state legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts; the Arts Partnership, with support from the Cities of Fargo, Moorhead and West Fargo; the McKnight Foundation; The FUNd at Plains Art Museum; Giving Hearts Day donors; Spring Gala sponsors; and hundreds of Plains Art Museum members like you.
Alicia Hauff, Osprey Takes the Plunge, 2025, Mixed media, 40 x 40 in.
Artist Led Exhibition Tour
Thursday, June 4, 6-6:45 PM, Free
Join Alicia Hauff for a walk through her solo exhibition, furthering the discussion of ecological community, connection, belonging, safety, and mutual care.