From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. My guest, the artist, Gary Baseman, has been away for way too long.

It's been almost 10 years since the feature film version of Teacher's Pet, but he's been very busy in the interim,

including having a new show at the Skirball Cultural Center Museum. The show is called The Doors Always Open.

Gary, first of all, it's always good to have you back.

Thank you, Elvis. Because the show has basically used as home as a setting, and in seeing

all these rooms that are items from the house you grew up in, it made me realize how much of your

stuff is connected to either embracing home or subverting home. I mean, that's kind of almost your

complete access as an artist, isn't it? Well, I never really thought about it that way as an artist,

because a lot of my home seems to be in this kind of mythical woods

or somewhere in my subconscious is where I seem to live.

But when the scurb all invited me to have the exhibition,

the home became the place where I guess I needed to present my work. In these rooms in the exhibition, the home became the place where I guess I needed to present my work.

In these rooms in the exhibition, there are so many artifacts and pieces of furniture

from the house you grew up in. But also, so much of the work that you do sort of like examines what

home means and uses home as a taking off point. And so many of the characters you've created sort of float around secrets.

And the idea that home can be a place for so many things that we acknowledge and come from

the subconscious, I found it be really exciting part of the way you work.

Well, I mean, within the last couple of years, I realized that with my family and the idea of home, that there were many secrets there.

But growing up, I guess, I remember talking to a writer who was telling me how, like, you spend half your life running away from home, and then the other half coming back to home.

For me, growing up, it was a place where my parents created an environment that

was inviting for all their friends. And I remember that playing a big role, like in the living

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