My favorite exhibition that I was invited to participate in 2020, and what will forever encapsule how the pandemic has affected artists globally was Gallery Loupe’s One World: 40 Artists Respond to Covid-19.
Our world as we knew it shut down early March 2020, and Patti Bleicher of Gallery Loupe responded by contacting the gallery’s many artists and inviting us to create pendants to reflect what we were experiencing, how we saw this global crisis. Within a few weeks she and her team pulled this together as an online exhibition and a gorgeous, accompanying book.
I certainly did not make much artwork or jewelry in 2020, but this call got me back in to the studio to create my SUNDAY Pendant and inspired a new offshoot series of work for me that year.
Read this EXHIBITION REVIEW by Makiko Akiyama of Japan for Klimt02.net (I have a lovely feature in it).
ONE WORLD: 40 Artists Respond to COVID-19
Online Exhibition, Gallery Loupe
April 30 - Aug 30, 2020
EXCERPT FROM GALLERY LOUPE’S WEBSITE:
Throughout history, jewelry has often served as touchstones for health and well-being, charms for good luck, or symbols of faith in a better future. The novel coronavirus, with its fearsome implications and daily inconveniences, has brought the international community to a standstill, confronting us all with a common peril, and thereby illustrating just how interconnected we truly are, and unified we must continually be, to fight this existential threat together.
All of the works in Gallery Loupe’s virtual exhibition were priced at $750 or less, with most of the proceeds going to the artists to help them in their time of need.
A gorgeous E-Book Catalog showcases all of the pieces in the show, including artist statements and video clips.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Annamaria Zanella, Attai Chen, Barbara Seidenath, Biba Schutz, Caroline Gore, Deganit Stern, Schocken, emiko oye, Esther Knobel, Eva Eisler, Evert Nijland, Florian Milker, Georg Dobler, Jess Tolbert, Karin Roy Andersson, Kiff Slemmons, Klaus Burgel, Lané Vorster, Luci Jockel, Lynn Batchelder, Margit Jäschke, Matt Lambert, Millie Behrens, Missy Graff Ballone, Naama Bergman, Noam Elyashiv, Peter Bauhuis, Reiko Ishiyama, Renzo Pasquale, Rian de Jong, Robert Baines, Sandra Enterline, Seung-Hea Lee, Shachar Cohen, Stephen Gordon Holman, Thomas Gentille, Tim Veske McMahon, Uli Rapp, Urmas Lüüs, Vered Kaminski, Yutaka Minegish