An online exhibition project created from open-sourced content. 7 artists and 7 different works presented each week for 9 weeks from April 4 - May 30.
To maintain our commitment to presenting exciting artists and programing at TAM, we decided to present online - on our website and social media pages - in lieu of TAM’s Spring 2020 Exhibitions (April 4 - May16). Due to popular demand, this online project was extended through May 30.
Artists were selected from your suggestions! Below are the 9 weeks (63 works) of HOBSON’S CHOICE.
Beth Fiedorek
Shelved Candles
2020
Oil on canvas
28 x 24 inches
I have been painting candles for almost a year, but this is the first time more than two candles have appeared in one work. I painted this at home during quarantine, and it speaks to the dual nature of separation, which is both enlivening and lonely. During this time of isolation myself and my friends are exploring and renewing our relationships to ourselves — how we listen, feel, and act. We are not alone in this darkness.
Aviva Diamond
Construction Site #1
2015
archival pigment print
16 x 24 inches
I was walking down the street and saw this big ad for The Gap plastered across the entrance to a construction site. The lock was perfectly placed over the woman’s heart, and the doorway split her in two. At the time I took this shot, it spoke to me of the way we use women in this society…and the price that is paid. Now, in the time of Covid-19, I also think of isolation…both physical and emotional.
Victoria Goring
Photos from The Covid Files
shot on Sony A7ii
Photographer and Playwright Victoria Goring explores the relationship between the Pandemic and non digital communication. observing handwritten messages within the community, Ms. Goring documents the urge of humans to communicate non digitally during self isolation.
Accidental art is created as messages of hope are juxtaposed with messages of criticism in our ever shifting new reality during Covid 19.
Nominated by urbanspinefilm
Ann Diener
Exclusionary #2
2019
graphite, colored pencil, gouache, ink and cut paper on paper
60 x 40 inches
My drawings are based on the layered history of place and the built environment. Through drawing and following extensive research, I trace geographical patterns of movement and the ways that spaces are re-invented over time. Our geographies, like our histories, take on a physical form as social relations become spatial as represented by images, ideas and imaginings. Using varied scale, obsessive layering and cutting away of images along with complicated perspective, I weave images and intricate linear patterns to depict man’s relationship with the land, the physical, practical and social architecture of space. The drawings are visual stories, dialogues among many sources, told through the build up of objects, architecture, natural and art history.
Cindy Rinne
Passages of Time
May 2020
Base from India, brocade, recycled clothing, sheers, fabrics from France, Nigeria, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, vintage lace, beads, sequins, yarn.
44 x 19 inches
Most of my fiber artwork is hung on the wall. I also wanted to create performance art wearing my costumes. There's been an evolution of the sculpture art from a performance video, fashion shows at MOAH, installation to live collaborative poetry performance from my books.
I wrote a poem from the imagery of this sculpture.
“Passages of Time” (excerpt)
Heron
Glides across the ceiling
Under purple moon
Forgets
This is impossible
The sculpture began before the lockdown and it seemed important to finish it during. Perhaps something I could know and control? There are repurposed fabrics from around the world representing how we are all connected and in this together. My upcycled clothing brings personal history as I wonder what the future holds or what it’s going to look like? The flight of birds, butterflies, and clouds are balanced by flowers and ground. I seek balance within. I consider movement and how it hangs on the body. A person unseen becomes an ephemeral lifeforce inside a crystal ball.
Frahn Koerner
35 new cases in NOLA
2020
acrylic on rives arches paper
12 x 9 inches
This work addresses the COVID19 pandemic in our midst and the multitude of our emotions in reaction to it. Move forward, stand in place, cover our mouths, turn away...what are we to do? I've selected this piece as one of the colorful markers of our time.
website: www.frahnkoerner.com
Rachel Finkelstein
Pixelation_new
2020
Video recording of a photographic image using Processing code.
Video, 52 seconds
As a Feminist artist, I seek to create a dialogue between the viewer and the artwork through the inclusion of women's perspective. My work aims to invite the viewer to question the current social and political landscape, and through this questioning, bring discussion around change required to achieve equality. My work embraces alternative materials that are connected to the female gender, such as textiles and photography. I also utilize performance and video which are mediums that do not carry the historical weight of male dominance unlike painting and sculpture.
