Unprecedented: Art Responds to 2020

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In 2020 the world experienced a global pandemic. To minimize serious illness and death we were asked to live physically smaller in the world, both individually and collectively. We remained at home to keep our communities safe-- at most venturing no more than the distance of several blocks for necessities or to take a walk outdoors.

This has also been a time of heightened racism and sexism that along with the pandemic has provoked major unrest and upheaval. Tragedy, death and violence focused the attention of the world on stereotyping, injustice towards people of color and peoples dislocated by poverty, war, disease and sexual orientation. Social isolation practices further disrupted everyday life and community.

Artists help focus our attention on matters that need to be addressed in society. Art can be a way of expanding spaces, translating the imaginary onto a blank page, seeing emergent meanings in combining material and color. If the role of an artist is to see deeply, awaken the spirits, illuminate the essential in the otherwise quotidian, what can this time of distance from one another offer in terms of exploring and developing daily practices which encourage points of access to artistic engagement? What are the deep investigations or simple activities of play we have come back to or have begun for the first time as affirmative results of our new world of isolation?

View proposes an exhibition of artworks created during and stimulated by this global crisis when artists may have had limited materials but maximum time. Time spent in isolation and quarantine may open new processes of creation coincident with processing the moment itself. We therefore welcome artists to submit to the call individual works or series in progress that would be completed by the time of the exhibition. Making meaning takes myriad forms and we welcome artworks exploring in all directions.

View’s Unprecedented: Art Responds to 2020 exhibition will bring together these works — from sketchbook collaborations to finished two-dimensional works to new constructions with unfamiliar materials in three dimensions — showcasing the ways in which expression and imagination are manifested in a novel time.

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Old Forge, New York