Jaime Glasser, Welcome Home
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The year 2020 came:

we expected clear sight.

By mid-March we were faced with a changed world in which we made “art while apart.” In the next weeks and months many of us found ourselves at home with time to slow down and to rediscover what is most important in our lives. Our relationships. Nature. Our values. Technology helped us communicate.

And then, heartbreakingly, we responded to the sorrow and unrest sparked by the torture and murder of George Floyd.

Early on, as the world locked down, artists heard a call to leave fear behind and to take on a role only they could fill–the creation of art that could inspire and comfort others. And so they set to work.

Moved by this, the Millet House invited any artist who had created work during quarantine to submit to a show, and as events took place we decided to use this show as a platform, to draw your focus to the Black Lives Matter movement. This show documents the artists’ work as a gift to you, the viewer.

We begin our virtual gallery tour with Vanessa Ortiz, whose pandemic work reflects her conviction that positivity is the way forward. “During the quarantine,” she writes, “I wanted to focus on the beauty that surrounds us;
and at the time everything was blooming and coming to life.” 

Anshu Priya, intuitive,

considered the fragility of a single butterfly

and began a painting just before lockdown

that later took on great significance for her.

The letter is for her aunt, in India.

There was also rediscovered joy.

At the Millet House we noted that in the early days

some hoped that the lockdown would be short in duration.

Others were too stunned at first to work or had concerning nightmares.

Yet joy could emerge,

in slowing down, in discovering what was really important,

in fashioning one’s own responses to the times,

in finding the joy that underlies sorrow:

.

Tiesha Harrison’s pieces allow universal love to shine through,

the highest value of them all. Eye to I, below,

is a powerful expression of love

as an unstoppable healing force.

 

Artist: Tiesha Harrison

Title: Eye to I

Mixed Media, Hand-cut Collage and Oil

36″ x 36” Gallery Wrapped Canvas

$922

 

Please click through to view further works on the theme of love by Tiesha Harrison. 

 

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So many artists created works that illustrate the values we most deeply need. Beauty. Joy.  Love. Temperance, depicted here by Anna Ryan, brings nature and city together and blesses each with streams of water. 

 

Artist: Anna Ryan

Title: Temperance

Size: 7.75in x 10.5in

Price: $325.00

 

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We suffered from loneliness,  and yet: we all share the same moon.

Masks! Along with a focus on slowing down, we learned practices that might help us stay well. Hand washing, for twenty seconds. Masks – to mask up, or not?

 

By June we all knew that cloth and paper masks protect those near the wearer and that if we would all wear a mask – to protect one another – the virus would come under control much more rapidly. 

 

 

In her complex pieces, artist Judith Rhue takes on these practices, referring  to hand washing (and germs) and drawing a parallel between masks and ultrasound technology.

 

 

 

Artist: Judith Rhue

Title: Pandemic

Oil on Canvas

16″ x 20″

$500

 

Please continue to view more art by Judith Rhue.

 

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Technology  brought us together.

We are grateful. We wondered how people got through the 1918 pandemic without the tools we have now: our phones. The tiny computers that our phones carry within them. And much more.

 

Here, Jason Youngdale muses on the dilemma faced by healthcare workers:

caring for others, they put themselves in danger. 

 

Perhaps a technology incorporating a fleet of medic mechs could be the solution.

 

 

Artist: Jason Youngdale

Title: Covid-19 Medic Mech

Pen and Pencil

5″ x 6.75″

$12

 

Artists have always interpreted “ourselves to ourselves” in times of societal upheaval. And then came the photo and video that caused
so many of us to rise up in sorrow and say, “No more!”

 

 

Artist: Kerry Mitchell

Title: To Serve And To Protect

Digital Image on Aluminum Panel

12″ x 18″

$200

 

 

Artist: Salim Adair

Title: Sounds of Silence
Digital Painting
11″ x 14″ Print
$75.00

Salim writes: “I made this in response to all of the voices all over the world that have been silenced for too long and the emotion is too strong to be contained.” 

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The following work, by Angela Schuller, like some of those above, is not for sale. Angela places it in the show solely to offer hope for healing.