ISRAEL

My work has always had a political, social stand. I deal with pollution, social exploitation and environment, War and religion. Showing how we are drifting apart from the same planet we depend on. It always felt like I was talking about something that is happening far away from my comfortable life, something I read about or saw on TV. And now it is knocking on my front door. Corona brought masks, limitations, and social distancing to my home, my family and my everyday life. My work is all about the distance we keep from things we don’t want to see and now those same things are distancing us from one another. dorizanger@gmail.com www.dorizanger.co.il

love my doll. 2019. Hand built ceramic Earthenware, 65X27X23 cm (2) The promised land ltd 2019. Hand built ceramic Earthenware, 55X30X47 cm2

The promised land ltd 2019. Hand built ceramic Earthenware, 55X30X47 cm

UNITED STATES

As an emphasis was put on making your own protective mask at home during the Pandemic, I began sewing fabric breasts into a protective helmet or shield. Once completed, I decided to push the concept further by making a protective body suit. In isolation, I used myself as a model. I began exploring the relationship I have to my body and the effect of performative movements. Being blind within the body suit, the actions I perform depend on mood, physical touch, how I navigate my environment, and the surrounding noise. The blindness furthermore allows me to explore choreography that flows naturally throughout my body. The process partially resembles an interpretive dance. The long exposure captures my movements rendering them continual and fluid, yet I am restricted to a confined space. The physical force of domesticity fights against my body and its actions. The title Body Armor felt appropriate for the series as it derives from a time when populations are protecting themselves not only from disease, but also from many forms of prejudice. The work serves to embrace the body, a place of empowerment, with all its unique flaws and raw power of the unedited. It is a way to accept one’s self and to view others without judgment of the physical body. cocoartist0@gmail.com

www.cocostudios.me

Body Armor No.15, Size: 5" x 6“, Long Exposure Digital Photograph, 2020

Body Armor No.25 ,6" x 4" ,Long Exposure Digital Photograph 2020

ISRAEL

Keeping our Distance. The last few month were challenging. Not just physically but fighting demons from inside. The other became a kind of the enemy. We were left alone in a chaotic reality who forced us to face our fears. I was fascinated with the new corona routine. The masks, the distance, the uniformity of the whole world. All of a sudden there was one language for all. Dystopic reality everywhere. My works reflects it. anatgoror@gmail.com

ISRAEL

I am 64 years old, lives in a small town in Israel. I started my interesting in photography 35 years ago. I am a self-taught. As an amateur photographer, my main interests comprehends many areas especially landscape, nature, abstract, street photography and urban. I always look for the rare light and weather conditions that enable me to emphasize the subjects in a special way. I took part in many exhibitions and competitions, and my works published in magazines. www.elibasri.com elibasri@gmail.com

ISRAEL

I am an international contemporary digital artist and art director, engaged in digital media and exhibits projects of video art and digital paintings in galleries and museums around the world. My works are similar to mental puzzles, where you can travel from one point to another analyzing a picture’s symbolic objects. There is always something for the observer to discover. I never force my vision or push my philosophical opinion on the viewers each and every one, can give theirs philosophy to my creation. My art is a surreal reality, all in my head. The viewer is taken a journey to places just as real as those you might find in this reality. When I start working on a new scene, it's like enter to a fantasy dream. like starting your new only virtual world. “Everything is possible” and in the majority of my works I am trying to combine visual realities, with subconscious emotions and philosophical thoughts. Tammy.tml@gmail.com

www.TammyMikeLaufer.com

MEXICO

I paint scenes typically associated with the feminine, the tender, vulnerable, delicate and fragile. However, I am not merely trying to paint a pretty picture. Instead, I intend to create a distorted reality, a scene that is trying too hard to be aesthetic, resulting in something exaggerated, baroque, and cynical. I believe the excessive use of ornamentation can be seen as reflective of life’s negations: clichés that have lost their innocence without spreading wisdom. John Currin, one of my “pictoric” references, expresses that good melancholy comes from thwarted joy and that’s how, through compositions that are both pleasing and grotesque, I confront the viewers with their own underlying desires and lusts. www.moralesalejandra.com alemorales48@gmai.com

Píntame unas enchiladas, 80 x 100 cm, Oil on canvas

ISRAEL

Although I was painting since young, I haven't felt myself as a painter until I Documenta at the year 1982, the age of 'back to painting'.

visited Kassel's

There, suddenly, in one click, I understood that this is my place. At the beginning I painted realistic paintings and drawings from photographs and looking. The abstract came later and got it's last shape when I got acquainted with the form of the E..E.G test. The graphic description of the Epileptic attack was haunting for me, and so happened that the line is the main subject of my abstracts.

My natural composition is the all-over one. It is as if I describe a piece, one frame from endless two- dimensional world. For me the abstract is the perfect two-dimensional world! an

At the same time I made realistic and semi realistic paintings. Every technic or material got expressed in those two ways, sometimes two series at the same time. www.mira-cedar.com miracedar@gmail.com

Isolation,Panda on paper, 29X20cm

ISRAEL

I work from observation with a sense of immediacy to capture the light in a landscape or the impression of a figure in front of me. During this time of social distancing, I have been forced to work from photographs and have been thinking about the differences in the intimacy with the model and how it is reflected in the image. Thinking about masks generated another series, thoughts about myself, ageing, why I am making art… yet keep making pictures. My materials are charcoal, pencil, oil paints, back to acrylics and gouache in the ZOOM environment, which stimulated another series.

jud@netvision.net.il www.judithappleton.com

Thoughts on other masks: Guy, 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 20 cm