We’ve been uncharacteristically incommunicado these past 30 days, since our amazing summer juried show, REEMERGE, went up on our Wall. But it is high time to, well...reemerge! The show’s gathering momentum, which has won over audiences and tallied 25 sales to date (!), deserves even greater visibility. We'll make every effort to make sure this happens during the second half of our run, which may also include a special event. (Please stay tuned!) Let’s begin by featuring one of 11 award-winning works, from POLLY DAVIS CHALFANT, one of 19 artists brand-new to our space, interpreting our theme of how the pandemic impacted their creative process. “Isolated and shut down, I watched a fractured nation struggle with managing a massive human crisis, exacerbated by shocking political theater...surrounded by intense social uprising and unrest...and ending with a violent insurrection at the Capitol,” says the artist. “All of this fueled a personal #artisticresponse to all the events of a yearlong nightmare.” She came away with a deeply empathetic answer, and our jury singled this work out with the citation SEVEN STAGES OF COVID: ANY CHANCE OF ESCAPE? We’ve all been there, right?! And hopefully, this also mirrors our feelings of humanity, which do not vary with the vicissitudes of public health policy — for example, the almost arbitrary changes in masking policy.
POLLY DAVIS CHALFANT
“Get me out”
acrylic on canvas
675.
