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40 results found.
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2020.003.001 - Photograph
Artist: "Outside In" is my imagination bringing in the warmth, movement, and life from what I can see outside my window into the four walls of my home. I took an image of my dreary four walls with shadows from my window and the plants outside of it and created it into an image that incorporates the outside with plant texture, a chimney, vines, and a sunset sky. With being quarantined I began to feel incredibly claustrophobic and got into a ba...
Record Type: Object
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2020.003.002 - Painting
Artist: This is an acrylic on panel painting that I also applied layers of epoxy on top of. I mixed mica mineral dust into the epoxy, creating different translucent effects and shimmers as you move around the piece. I started the initial concept before the outbreak took place. Thinking about imagery of a giant abandoned statue to an unknown goddess. I was thinking about the concept of time and how the meaning of humanity's created art objects ...
Record Type: Object
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2020.003.003 - Mask
Face mask made with cotton fabric, clothesline rope, and faux leather upholstery fabric (hand-made fringe). Artist: The metallic fringe and chartreuse yellow are playful, eye-catching, quirky elements forced into the somber identity of the mask form. The mask becomes a forced smile, an attempt at cheer I feel I must be bound to during this time. "Keep positive and move forward". It is also now a glaring symbol of which "side" I choose as our c...
Record Type: Object
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2020.003.004 - Painting
Artist: Like salacious and misleading headlines, my painting's title grants F. Scott Fitzgerald heroism, robbing Zelda of agency, similar to the world enduring 2020. I used watercolors for the anthropomorphic figure to indicate a lack of control regarding spread of disease and misinformation. Haloed by wallpaper, the bleeding of Zelda's watercolor figure further attaches her to the domestic, a chair, in the same way many have been quarantined at ...
Record Type: Object
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2020.003.005 - Photograph
Erin Guiney, a passenger on Delta flight 2937, traveling from Laguardia Airport in New York City to Atlanta, sits in a row all to herself, wearing surgical gloves as she touches the seat-back entertainment screen. Artist: This picture was taken on March 21, as I was on the final leg of my return home. I had been photographing in Estonia and Latvia for several weeks, but as the pandemic spread across the world, I caught one of the last flights ...
Record Type: Object
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2020.003.006 - Sculpture
Mixed Media using found objects. Artist: My piece is suggestive of how most people, including myself, felt helpless and unable to move through a most uncomfortable, frightening, uncertain time. Confined to our homes, our fears, and our doubts, we were forced to become "new" people without the normal connections we had to others and thus, without their feedback and support.
Record Type: Object
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2020.003.007 - Book
Artist: A boy's long-neglected favorite stuffed monkey, Pippo's years show. During quarantine, he is discovered-tumbled in a chair-by the "boy's" mother who brings Pippo back into daily family activities. Trex, another old toy, makes appearances as Pippo's friend. Each page features a photograph with short text conveying moments of life during stay-at-home days only lightly, with no direct statements. I had the lonesome blues when I was sortin...
Record Type: Object
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2020.003.008 - Painting
Artist: This is an original oil and gold leaf on panel. The painting is about the magic of the creative process. These pencils are antique and such a pleasure to use, so they inspired this trompe l'oeil composition. Butterflies often find their way into my work and symbolize the metaphorical flight we embark upon as we are swept away from the cares of life and into a state of creative flow. This painting is about the magic of makin...
Record Type: Object
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2020.003.009 - Sculpture
Artist: This maple burl which depicts the COVID 19 virus was discovered when I put it on my lath to turn a bowl, and accidently knocked off a piece of the bark. When I saw what was displayed underneath I was amazed at how similar the likeness was to the virus molecule I had seen on TV. I spent several hours removing all the bark and was rewarded by this beauty. To preserve the likeness of the virus, I hollowed the burl out and did not make the bo...
Record Type: Object
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2020.003.010 - Sculpture
Artist: This box-shaped sculpture references a house. It is made from cardboard covered with beeswax and oil paint. The box is topped with triangular shapes which represent the roofs. It contains four panels with scenes carved into the wax that illustrate a different aspect of quarantining at home.
Record Type: Object
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2020.003.011 - Painting
Artist: I painted this piece the day after I was furloughed from my job. I wanted to use bright colors and bold black lines, like I usually do, but also show a little exhaustion and disappointment in my body language. Also, in a satirical way, I wanted to add a name tag on my shirt as a placeholder for my signature and I have a wristband on with the number 24 to represent the late Kobe Bryant who died earlier in this already interesting year. ...
Record Type: Object
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2020.003.012 - Drawing
Artist: The drawing is done with a variety of graphite pencils. I incorporate light and shadows to create three dimensional forms and landscapes in a two dimensional space. The drawing is based upon the dynamic between the people who choose to follow the distancing guidelines and masks and those who choose not to. Having several medical issues that put me at a higher risk, it is very aggravating to see people who do not seem to take this pande...
Record Type: Object
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2020.003.013 - Sculpture
Artist: The glazed stone becomes a symbol of the Covid-19 virus. It sits on an wreathing sea of clear tubular glass that acts as a metaphor for fresh, clean water, air and lungs. The Dark spot is at the same time a symbol of all pollutants in our environment, be it physical, political or ideological. The current push for racial justice has gained momentum because of the deep reflection this pandemic has afforded us.
Record Type: Object
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2020.003.014 - Photograph
Artist: This photograph was inspired by my habit of shooting abandoned places or objects. Who was here and why was it left? Was it forgotten or just no longer wanted? As I would mask up and go to do a curb side pickup or work alone in the community garden I felt the emptiness of the streets - so few cars and rarely any pedestrians. I wanted to express that sense of isolation so chose a boot and spent a morning setting it in places I frequent. Of ...
Record Type: Object
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2020.003.015 - Sculpture
Artist: The Plague Doctors Covid-19 mask is designed to be worn to protect from all sorts of attacks. These include from virus Covid-19, anti-science rioters, rain, wing, rocks, tornados (at least the head) and other dangers. The mask also protects against identity theft. It has, under the nose piece, a port or hole through which a tube or straw can be placed by which liquids can be supplied to the wearer during riots. Plague Doctors Covid-19 ...
Record Type: Object
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2020.003.016 - Print
Single color relief print on toilet paper. Hand printed. Artist: This print is a representation of the COVID-19 virus model. This invisible monster made us redefine ourselves and our society. Terms like "essential" have taken on a new meaning for all of us. With this image, I have tried to reevaluate what the term "paper" means to me as an artist and I have chosen to use the now precious commodity of toilet paper as a substrate for this work o...
Record Type: Object
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2020.003.017 - Mosaic
Artist: Mosaic, Smalti glass, found objects, glass chunks. This piece, a heart within a heart represents the love we hold for one another. And sometimes it's impossible to see how we can live without them. Love. Kindness. Help. Healing. Giving. It's all we have that's good.
Record Type: Object
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2020.003.018 - Mixed Media
Artist: This piece shows a group of Appalachian workers fighting against themselves while the figure heads causing the flooding hunker down on their islands in the lake. My characters don't realize that the place they were born has been flooded. The place they have built up and protected has now been destroyed. The figures' only focus is fighting with each other for the scraps left from the flooding of their community. They fight neighbor against...
Record Type: Object
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2020.003.019 - Photograph
Photograph of a construction of photographs (Self Portrait) Artist: "This is a self portrait of how it feels to me, in this moment of time."
Record Type: Object
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2020.003.020 - Video
The piece is a nine-minute timelapse narrative about creating art during the pandemic. The entire piece can be found at the following link. https://youtu.be/twuaGF9ynx8 Artist: In this short timelapse film, Gregory Marlow, an animator and animation professor, explores working and teaching from home while learning the art of timelapse during the Covid-19 outbreak. The film documents the challenges of creating, learning, and teaching from home a...
Record Type: Object
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2020.003.021 - Mixed Media
Artist: A hand-drawn diagram of a pair of lungs, printed using gum bichromate, embellished with acrylic gold paint and gold leaf. From an ethereal cloud-like watercolor background, stitching emerges and flows in/out of the "throat" of the lungs. I already lived with pleurisy -- or pain/inflammation of the lungs. While this piece is specifically about my experience with that intermittent/everyday pain, it overlaps with the detailed medical conc...
Record Type: Object
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2020.003.022 - Mixed Media
"At Loose Ends" is a three dimensional piece- digital photographs, pencil and watercolor ink on vellum layers, sewn with gold thread. Artist: "At Loose Ends" on the surface appears to be a pretty picture of a vase of flowers set in a window overlooking a hill, with some golden embroidery. Displayed transparently, however, layers appear. I wanted to speak to fragility, and beauty. Being overwhelmed with words and information. Feeling trapped. H...
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2020.003.023 - Mixed Media
Artist: The dilapidated doors in an abandoned factory in Morristown is symbolic for illness (both mental and physical) in this piece it is about the 1st 6 months of covid with 4 major topics the origin China, the politics of it, the Covid-19 (major topic). Lastly I felt it important to include the BLM protests/riots because they will walk hand in hand with the story of the pandemic in the years to come. This new way of life we are living with ...
Record Type: Object
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2020.003.024 - Painting
Artist: This painting represents the initial panic and sense of desperation one feels upon being displaced. Personally it represents how I felt at being displaced from my school community and studios and from losing opportunities that I had been working toward for over a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a painting that was completed a few weeks after the initial stay at home orders. I had been working with several ...
Record Type: Object
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2020.003.025 - Painting
Artist: Much recent work this past year has been influenced by geological formations, especially of igneous rock, forged out of fire from inside the earth's mantle into our visible ground. The solidity of this ancient material fascinates me and has since childhood. This piece references those rock forms but also suggests a water source originating from out of the picture plane. This small oil began as a much wider landscape, but was sitting dejec...
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2020.003.026 - Textile
Digital print imposed onto cotton. This textile art is pieced, machine and hand quilted. Artist: Everyone on the planet during COVID-19 has been affected by grief and stress, one way or another. Due to social distancing guidelines, people have been searching for sanity, frequently within the home and in nature. Imagery of house plants and dried foliage illustrate growth and the mundane norm people have experienced during this time. Commonly wh...
Record Type: Object
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2020.003.027 - Drawing
Artist: I made a black oil pastel base & then carved a pencil drawing of a skull into it. The second and third image I sent to show the immense effect direct and indirect light has on the work. The skull will appear to scream in agony when you walk past it. It almost appears holographic, like one of those bookmarks that changes images as light hits different parts. I wanted to give the skull an ominous, angry gaze. I made a black oil pastel ba...
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2020.003.028 - Painting
Artist: "The Wake" is a painting that reflects upon the experience of danger, turmoil, or loss, and the redemptive act of fleeing. Conceptually, this painting explores the idea of "the wake" from several different angles. Firstly, our protagonist and heroine experiences an awakening which leads to her escape. Next, she traverses an ocean-like landscape leaving in her wake that from which she flees. Finally, the painting references the concept of ...
Record Type: Object
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2020.003.029 - Mixed Media
Artist: A 24inx 12in frame made of old Tennessee wormy barnwood. Inside is a hand crafted leather Tennessee state map with a custom handled knife with white stabilized bone encasing the letter V hand made from orange micarta. The V is represented as the center of the tooling of coVid19. This is surrounded by tooling of barbed wire reflecting how we have been fenced in. I crafted all but the knife steel. The old barn wood frame is from Tennesse...
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2020.003.030 - Drawing
Artist: As #273 in a series of 300 drawings this March 2020 drawing appeared with a mask reflecting my awareness about the pandemic. The potential for misery & death does appear to be reflected in the work. Since March the importance of this masked man seems to be increasing with time. With the seriousness of the situation saturating the culture I'm glad that I documented my uncertainty as I am in a higher risk group due to my age.
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