Inside Outside Upside Down
State Collapse 20x16 inches Oil on panel
This juried invitational celebrates dynamic work across media by 64 artists of the greater DC region, Inside Outside, Upside Down makes vivid the turmoil, strength, and resiliency of the human spirit in the face of the past year’s global covid-19 pandemic and social upheaval.
My personal artist statement for this piece:
"When the virus came here, it found a country with serious underlying conditions, and it exploited them ruthlessly. Chronic ills—a corrupt political class, a sclerotic bureaucracy, a heartless economy, a divided and distracted public—had gone untreated for years," wrote George Packer for The Atlantic in June of last year. The outbreak of COVID-19 revealed an emperor with no clothes in the United States: a nation whose response to a devastating crisis was more akin to that of a failed state than a superpower. The subject of State Collapse, with heavy-lidded eyes and body curled, is as if rendered immobile beneath the weight of this failure, buried by the helplessness and isolation so many Americans felt throughout the pandemic.
JULY 17-SEPTEMBER 12, 2021
The Phillips Collection
1600 21st Street, NW
Washington, DC
MASTER COPIES/INTERPRETATIONS
Crucifixion Diptych, c. 1460, oil on oak panels. Philadelphia Museum of Art
Dream It Can Be Oil on panel 24x30
July 17th -August 15th
The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences
120 Long Beach Blvd.,
Loveladies, NJ 08008
TFAA Regional Painting Competition 2021
July 23-August 22
Opening Reception July 29th 6:30-8:30pm
Torpedo Factory Artists @ Mosaic
105 District Ave.
Fairfax, VA
The Golden Mean - oil and gold leaf on paper
ART ON PAPER NEW YORK
With Alida Anderson Art Projects -Booth E23
September 9th-12th, 2021
Pier 36, Downtown Manhattan
299 South Street
New York, 10002
