The House America Built

Taking its name from an installation by artist Daniel Joseph Martinez (b. 1957, Los Angeles) re-creating Ted Kaczynski's cabin—a hand-built, off-grid structure symbolizing the violence that isolation and exclusion can produce—_The House America Built_ examines how artists challenge structures or notions of power that erase specific human stories. Spanning drawing, photography, video, sculpture, and mixed media, the works on view chart histories personal and universal, local and global, to reveal how different lived realities of marginalization are obscured by the systems, places, or processes that determine how power is constructed. The exhibition, presented by the 2025–26 Orange County Young Curators cohort, invites audiences to consider what kind of society, world, or symbolic "house" we, as Americans, might be building for ourselves.