Building new modes of reliance. Creating our own ecosystems to grow, preserve, sustain, share, nurture, and barter with comrades.
Crys Yin, Spurts, one of many, 2020. Acrylic on paper. 12 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches.
Crys Yin is an artist based in New York. Her paintings, drawings and sculptures often deal with cultural misconnections and embracing the comedic side of personal experiences.
This work is a preliminary effort at voicing time in silence, quietude, and stillness. In this time of disengagement from activities, we are faced with a stillness—a stopping—that requires softening, acceptance, and curiosity. This is the process of finding language where the Life Force is at the edge of the: abyss, oblivion, tragic, mystery, merging, renewal, letting go, transitioning, unknown, eternity, disappearing, freedom, light, vanishing.
Ann Pachner, 4_7_20, 2020. Pigment print. 13 x 19 inches.
Ann Pachner lives and works in New York City, and has been a recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
This drawing, “S” as in Sylvia, is related to my “S” shaped structures.
Sylvia Netzer, “S” as in Sylvia, 2019. Sharpie on water paint paper. 11 x 17 inches.
Sylvia Netzer is a sculptor who works with clay and likes to draw. She is self- quarantined with her husband, Christopher Knowles.
One approach is the first piece of a series of works entitled, Vision, on re-imagining new possibilities on interaction and reaction. Moving away from a binary frame of mind into creating more cohesive and interconnected networks of cultural, political, artistic, and social systems.
Negin Sharifzadeh, One approach, 2020. Digital photography (wall installation piece). 300 dpi.
Negin Sharifzadeh is a cross-disciplinary artist and storyteller based in Brooklyn, New York, whose work centers on the mechanisms, patterns, and interplay of systems ranging from biological and emotional to speculative and surreal.
The materials and tools I have on hand have gained new meaning and new purpose during this pandemic. It is interesting to reflect on what and how the objects around me that previously had different function have now presented themselves to me as tools and materials for my art practice. I am compelled to work with textiles and weaving because I enjoy the freedom I am able to find within its inherent framework. The structure and system of weaving can be felt by some as limitation but for me, its really conducive to exploration and discovery. The limitations of the pandemic haven’t exactly functioned the same way, though, and its certainly been difficult to stay inspired. However, I do feel the world needs art and creativity now more than ever to remind us all about what it means to be human.
Victoria Manganiello is a Brooklyn-based textile artist making large scale installations and paintings utilizing traditional mediums and techniques alongside surprising technologies and materials.
www.victoriamanganiello.com @victoriamanganiello
The beauty of the Vermont landscape is sustaining us during the pandemic but also reminds us that Mother Nature continues pretty much on schedule while our human world is turned upside down.
Maxine Henryson, Isolating in Vermont during the pandemic, Monkton Ridge, Vermont, 2020. Archival pigment print. 8 1/2 x 11 inches.
A photographer and bookmaker, Maxine Henryson's work is about place, geographic space and the search for cultural interconnectivity. Photographing through the lens of color, Henryson uses the blur to emphasize movement and temporality.
image credit: Cheri Eisenberg
The title “rituals of daily life become the opportunities for transmission” comes from an article by Elizabeth Kolbert on the virus in the most recent New Yorker. I’ve used a cat image because I am seeing a lot of feral cats as I walk outside. Some of the lettering is made of cardboard from canned foods because I do not have enough materials in my home studio.
Ann Schaumburger, The Rituals of Daily Life Become the Opportunities for Transmission 2, 2020. Assorted papers on music paper. 17 x 12 1/2 inches.
Ann Schaumburger is a New York based painter also working in collage.
