Jul 1, 2020 | Alone Together, Contemporary
Much has changed since I wrote a short Art in Isolation piece for Paintings on Paintings. Now, not only are we in a global pandemic that will change our lives forever, we witnessed the callous murder of George Floyd on video and Black Lives Matter mushroomed into a...
Jun 26, 2020 | Alone Together, Contemporary
I wrote this letter to Julie on May 23rd. It represents my frame of mind during the first months of quarantine, when the most difficult problems I was encountering were being able to buy what we needed and having to stay away from other people. On May 25th, George...
Jun 21, 2020 | Alone Together, Contemporary
What art are you looking at during this time? How has your studio practice shifted? A month ago, PoP sent me these questions. It’s taken me a while to sort out my answer, because “this time” isn’t just now. Four years of political pounding has wrecked my studio...
Jun 11, 2020 | Alone Together, Contemporary, PoP Highlights
Peter Williams, The Death of George Floyd, 2020, Oil on canvas, 48 in. x 60 in. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND LUIS DE JESUS LOS ANGELES. Making things allows one to be a member of a group: of ideas, forms, awareness, sensitivities, none of which is ever in isolation....
May 28, 2020 | Alone Together, Contemporary
Ellen Harvey in Studio with The Disappointed Tourist, 2020. Photograph: Etienne Frossard. Getting out of bed after a month with Covid-19 and my studio seems both magical and somehow utterly strange. It’s as though the life I was leading when the world stopped is...
May 21, 2020 | Alone Together, Contemporary
All images from Judy Glantzman’s studio I always work at home; the pandemic gives me a “time standing still” feeling which I like. I have been painting portraits from obituaries on poured plaster/acrylic plaques since the pandemic began. Once I decided to paint...
