Inside Out: Emerging from Isolation
Date and Time
Sunday May 23, 2021
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
April 2 ? May 30, 2021
Fri-Sunday 12-4PM
Location
Claremont Museum of Art, 200 W. First St., Claremont
Fees/Admission
Free Admission
Website
Description
After a full year of closure, the Claremont Museum of Art will reopen to the public beginning April 2 with the exhibition, Inside Out: Emerging from Isolation, featuring work produced during the pandemic by 28 area artists. With safety measures and limited capacity, everyone is welcome with free admission through May 30.
The Claremont Museum of Art, located in the historic Claremont Depot at 200 W. First Street, is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. For more information visit http://claremontmuseum.org
As all our lives were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, local artists continued their creative work in their homes and studios. Working from inside?physically and psychologically?they expressed and reflected on their experiences through their art. This exhibition, generously sponsored by Gould Asset Management LLC, seeks to bring us all out of our long isolation with messages of solace and hope.
Viewers can also experience the exhibition in a 30-minute video with an intimate view of each piece accompanied by the words of the artist. Find the online exhibition and video at www.claremontmuseum.org or on the Claremont Museum of Art YouTube channel.
MORE ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Participating artists were asked to submit one work produced or completed between March and July of 2020, along with a brief statement about it. The exhibition offers a richly varied collection of highly individual works of art?paintings, sculpture, quilts, neon; figurative and abstract. At the same time, shared realities of the pandemic emerge.
There are strong women, dreams, masks (real, historical, metaphorical); compositions that are hopeful, wistful, provocative, edgy; some depict the solace of nature, others the home. Interestingly, many of the artists work with layers, collage, intersecting and blending parts in a way that seems to echo the simultaneity of varied, even conflicting, feelings and experiences. Their words reflect feelings of frailty and confusion, but also the centering power of making art and the comfort of a virtual community of artists.
Participating artists are: Alba Cisneros, Barry Cisneros, Steve Comba, Gina Lawson Egan, Paul Faulstich, Sumi Foley, Cathy Garcia, Sandy Garcia, Athena Hahn, Rebecca Hamm, Aleta Jacobson, Christy Johnson, Paul Kittlaus, Jacqueline Knell, Jackie Leishman, Richard Martinez, Sylvia Megerdichian, Jerry Owens, T. Robert Pacini, Damian Ross, Steve Rushingwind, Anne Seltzer, David Svenson, Georgette Unis, Jane Park Wells, Maureen Wheeler, Larry White, and Carol Wiese.
Direct link to the Inside Out video: https://youtu.be/a0J2qtB4H_U
Link to Inside Out webpage: http://claremontmuseum.org/inside-out-emerging-from-isolation/