Artist Kent Henricksen’s new works subtly bring to life his personal examinations of social science by integrating foreign ideals into proverbial western settings. One of his main concerns is the eternal investigation of psychological and physical boundaries that human beings deal with in their every-day lives. He archives figures and landscapes from diverse sources in order to establish dialogues between the past and the present. Furthermore, he uses embroidery both as a means to illustrate imagined narratives, allwoing the viewers to make a simple associations to the subject-matter.

Inaugurated in 2008, this project space at the Bass Museum is part of an ongoing dialogue between contemporary art and art from the past. It will showcase a series of projects and single works by artists who are inspired by or respond to the history of art.

A cabinet was one of a number of terms for a private room in the domestic architecture and that of palaces of Early Modern Europe, serving as a study or retreat, usually for a man; the cabinet would be furnished with books and works of art, and sited adjacent to his bedchamber, the equivalent of the Italian Renaissance studiolo. In the Late Medieval period, such newly perceived requirements for privacy had been served by the solar of the English gentry house, and a similar, less secular purpose had been served by a private oratory.

In the cabinet as it evolved in French Baroque architecture, the last in the standardized series of rooms that constituted a Baroque apartment, the walls would be hung with rich textiles as a background for cabinet pictures, those small works, often on copper or wood panel, that required intimate study for appreciation, among which would also be devotional pictures.

The meaning of "cabinet" began to be extended to the contents of the cabinet; thus we see the 16th century cabinet of curiosities, often combined with a library. The sense of cabinet as a piece of furniture is actually older in English than the meaning as a room, but originally meant more a strongbox or jewel chest than a display case.