Local Art in the Age of the 2020 Global Pandemic
ON THE COVER: Multiphase turbulent gas cloud from a human sneeze. Credit: JAMA (2020) Modified by cropping, adding text, and adding base gradation.
Local Art in the Age of the 2020 Global Pandemic
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he Reece Museum and Mary B. Martin School of the Arts at East Tennessee State University, community supporters Bravissima! Women Sponsoring the Arts!, and others joined in an initiative to purchase artwork created in 2019 or 2020 by artists from Tennessee’s First Congressional District for a Local Art in the Age of the 2020 Global Pandemic special collection to be housed in the Reece Museum’s permanent collection. This special collection serves as a visual, collective memory of the 2020 pandemic in northeast Tennessee. The benefactors, jurors, and community supporters appreciate the efforts of all those who had a hand in bringing this very special collection to the Reece Museum. The jurors issued
the following statement meant for all artists who entered the Local Art in the Age of the 2020 Global Pandemic initiative: In these challenging times, we appreciate all entrants who added their artistic voices for our consideration. Given there was a finite amount of money to be equally dispersed among the artists we juried into the pandemic special collection, we accepted our responsibility to posterity with humility and a collective critical eye. Over one hundred artists from eleven of the twelve counties that wholly or partially comprise the congressional district submitted artworks for the jurors’ consideration. Artist names and addresses were redacted for jurying purposes.
NOTE: Artists juried into the collection are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. Each artist received the same monetary compensation. Artwork dimensions are listed in inches as height x width x depth.
Kailyn Beitzel Outside In 2020 Photograph 24” x 18”
Sam Boven Empty Spaces 2020 Acrylic paint and epoxy on panel 39.5” x 23”
Laken Bridges On the fringe 2020 Mixed media 8.5” x 12” approx. x 5” approx.
Danielle Byington F. Scott Fitzgerald Heals Zelda from the 1918 Flu 2020 Watercolor, acrylic, mixed media paper, framed (Plexiglass) 18.5� x 15.5�
Joel Carillet The Space Between Us 2020 Photograph 16” x 24”
Teresa Crowe Chained 2020 Mixed media using found objects 16” x 8” x 4.25”
Mary de Wit 50 Days with Pippo 2020 Printed book 8.5” x 8.5” x 0.25”
Cristy Dunn Dixons El Dorado 2019 Oil and gold leaf on panel 17” x 14”
Richard Dwyer molecular covid 19 2020 Wood 5� x 8� in diameter
Joan Elliott Homebodies 2020 Beeswax, oil on cardboard 11” x 8” x 8”
Jason Flack Self-Portrait 2020 Acrylic and oil on canvas 14” x 11”
Brian Fletcher Flexible Flyer 2020 Graphite 16” x 20”
Ron Fondaw Dark Particle 2020 Cast glass and stone 16” x 16” x 5”
Lyn Govette isolation 2020 Photograph 26” x 20”
Mike Helbing Doctor’s Plague Mask 2020 Metal, cotton, and foam 12.5” x 11” x 17”
John Hilton Not A Square To Spare 2020 Relief print on toilet paper 4” x 4”
Beverly Thomas Jenkins I Love You More, Impossible! 2020 Mosaic 10” x 10” x 3.5”
Storm Ketron After the Flood 2020 Mixed media 38” x 58” x 4”
Val Lyle Can You Hear My Scream 2020 Photograph 10” x 15”
Gregory Marlow Journey At Home 2020 Timelapse video Nine minutes, image is screenshot from the film
Jocelyn Mathewes Pleurisy I 2020 Gum bichromate with gold leaf, acrylic, and embroidery 11” x 7”
Joy Messimer At Loose Ends 2020 Mixed media 8” x 8” x 0.0625”
Shannon Mettler do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign 2020 Mixed media 38” x 48” x 2”
Katie Murphy On and Ever Onward 2020 Oil on canvas 66” x 70”
Mary Nees Cleansing Coming 2020 Oil and cold wax on panel 11” x 11”
Emily Parris Am I Okay? 2020 Textile 13.5” x 13.5”
Charles Peters The Bat Eater 2020 Pastel and pencil drawing 9� x 12�
Marie Porterfield The Wake 2020 Acrylic on panel 21.5” x 33.75”
Rick Ramsey co V id 19 2020 Leather, bone, orange micarta, knife steel, wood 12” x 24”
James Rathschmidt Mr. Mask 2020 Ink on paper 9” x 12”
Mark Ray I’m Feeling Much Better 2020 Tradigital Painting 20” x 36”
Anne Reid Blue and Green Basket 2019 Ceramic 14.25” x 5.5”
Garry Renfro Brian Wilson, 1963 2020 Corrugated board 30” x 41.75”
Jonathan Reynolds Grendel 2019 Red oak, poplar, pine, maple, padauk, metal, wire, acrylic paint 24” x 18” x 3.25”
Thomas Root Self-Portrait 2020 Oil on linen 14” x 12”
Mike Rose Seeking Balance 2020 Forged steel 5’ x 3’ x 9”
Martha Rubenstein Slain by the Co 2020 Acrylic with charcoal on canvas 24” x 24”
Debra Savell Stewart Lost Pieces of Life 2019 Metal 24” x 14” x 5”
Christy Ward Pandemic Bunny 2020 Mixed media 11” x 14”
Lauren Whipple Essential 2020 Pen and ink 11” x 9”
Acknowledgements The administrators of the Local Art in the Age of the 2020 Global Pandemic gratefully acknowledge those who had a hand in this initiative: at East Tennessee State University: College of Arts and Sciences Department of Appalachian Studies Department of Art and Design Division of University Advancement University Counsel University Relations in the wider community: WCYB-TV Johnson City Press Ms. Jeri Myers and major support from: