CORONA CARE +
Corona Care + is a time capsule; presenting the thoughts, feelings, and advice of artists during the 2020 pandemic.
Field Projects began this initiative as a means of focusing on the emotional and vocational toll social isolation creates for all of us. This project displays selfie interviews with artists who are currently in quarantine. This is a stressful time, that is especially hard on artists who rely on in-person gatherings and events to create and share their work. We hope Corona Care + can provide everyone with insight into the drastic ways the world has shifted due to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
Below you can find these video logs archived as a group, as well as additional information about the participating artists.
To view all videos, scroll through the carousel, or use the arrows at either side of the main video frame.
CONTRIBUTORS
Destiny Belgrave
Destiny is a papercut and mixed-media artist. She was born and raised in Brooklyn NY, and nurtured with a Black Caribbean-American upbringing. Currently, Destiny resides in Queens NY.
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Manna From Heaven, papercut, 2019
Valery Jung Estabrook
Valery is a multidisciplinary artist exploring culture and the human experience through media and time-based installations. She currently resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Featured: My Hands are Medicine, Video Still
Marcelina Gonzales
“My works are little snapshots of my life. They call back to the delicate and very awkward time in which I was navigating my way from childhood, through adolescence, and into womanhood. I love to share little stories of my past that seemed monumental at that time but when reexamined at this point in my life are free of worry, radiate innocence, and are filled with love. Having others know the true narrative behind the work has never felt necessary to me but I thought sharing this anecdote during these strange and uncertain times was appropriate. I hope you find some joy in this absurdly dramatic story.” -Marcelina Gonzales: 03/27/2020
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Don’t eat pistachios in the dark, Oil tinted resin collaged on wood, 23”x16”x3”, made during the 2020 pandemic.
Chiara No
Chiara is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Vermont and NYC.
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Installation view of a summoning rug from Her/Tongue at White Couch, 2019.
Katie Hector
Katie was raised in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. She is currently a mixed media artist, living in New York. This fall she will begin attending CalArts for her MFA this fall.
Featured:
Here We Are 12 x 9 inches ink, dye, and gouache on paper. Made during the 2020 pandemic.
Amanda Lechner
Amanda is a visual artist based in New Mexico and Virginia. Lechner's studio practice primarily revolves around drawing and painting.
Featured:
Beyond, Beyond, Egg tempura on panel, 2018
Barry Hazard
Barry Hazard is an artist in Brooklyn, NY. He holds a MFA from the School of Visual Arts (2008), a BFA from Tufts University (1989) and a Diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (1988). He is an artist, construction supervisor and youth worker.
Featured: City Farm
Alissa Polan
Alissa was born and raised in Los Angeles CA. Great in a Number of Ways, Accommodating Archival Pigment Print 36" x 62" 2020.
Alissa Polan Corona Care + Interview Intro
Alissa Polan Corona Care + Interview 2
Alissa Polan Corona Care + Interview 3
Padma Rajendran
Padma is a multimedia artists, born in Klang, Malaysia and Lives in Catskill / NY.
Featured: "American Dream Jeans Too" 72 x48 in.
Shaghayegh Ahmadian
Shaghayegh is a painter based in Tehran Iran
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Shaghayegh Ahmadian Corona Care + Interview
Julia Blume
Julia is a painter, sculptor, and installation artist working in New York.
Loren Erdrich
Loren Erdrich is a mixed-media visual artist working primarily in drawing, sculpture, performance, and video. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Katherine Keltner
Katherine Keltner is a Brooklyn-based artist whose body of work includes paintings; drawings; photo-based, mixed media collages; installations; and an artist’s book. Keltner’s works are autobiographical in nature and utilize personal effects to construct various portraits and visual diaries that reveal narratives from her life that peek out from otherwise
abstract compositions.
Featured: Into the Light, 2020, Sennelier ink and pen on paper, 12 x 9 “
Maya Ben David
Maya Ben David (MBD) is a Toronto-based Jewish-Iranian Anthropomorphic Airplane. Working in video, installation and performance, she creates worlds and characters that aid her ongoing exploration of anthropomorphism, cosplay and performative personas.
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Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow’s work questions moments in history, as some political views and archetypes may be forgotten and considered insignificant. Such narratives are constructed and reconstructed, highlighting the lost traditions and stories of her complex heritage.
Featured: "The Picnic: Harvest of the Zephyr" (2018) documented by Margeaux Walter
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Sarah Grass
Sarah Grass is an interdisciplinary artist studying narrative consciousness through drawing and sculpture. Her work consists of psychological diagrams, landscapes, and globes mapping imagery that is at once diaristic, political, ecological, and surreal.
Featured: The Arch Is Long, 11x14", 2020, ink and colored pencil on paper
Anya Rosen
Anya Rosen b. 1989 is an artist currently living in Brooklyn, NY. Inspired by the fraught relationship between humanity and natural resources, Anya has spent the past six years working on farms across the eastern coast of the United States. Her paintings and drawings examine the tension between internal and external desire through figurative representation of psychic narrative.
Amanda Burnham
Amanda Burnham is interested in cities, systems, and the dark humor to be found in modern life; she makes drawings, artist books, and large site specific installations. The latter works are usually composed of hundreds of quick, gestural, acrylic paint sketches made with a fat brush that are then cut and collaged onto both built armatures and the existing surfaces of a space; these are sometimes further animated with embedded lighting. The effect is somewhere between a comic book and a stage set. She lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland.
Featured: “Ellipsis” (detail), 2019, Acrylic on paper collage installation with wall painted elements, detail view approximately 8 x 8 x 18’
Madeline Walker
Madeline Walker is a Visual Artist from Cincinnati, Ohio. She creates sculptural paintings and installations, often pairing digital fabrication processes with traditional mold-making techniques throughout the process. She is now based in Bellevue, Kentucky after living and working in Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and New York for the past five years.
Featured: Sensory Landscapes 11, 2019, Plaster, Pigment, Acrylic, Mica & Wood, 34 × 40 × 2 in
Michelle Mackey
Throughout the last decade Mackey has had solo exhibitions in Berlin, New York City, and Dallas, Tx. She has been a resident at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, WY, Vermont Studio Center, and 100W in Corsicana, Texas. Mackey lives and works in urban areas while her subject matter delves further into the western expanse.
Featured : Here, Now, Always 16"x 20" latex enamel, shellac, joint compound on wood
Samantha Rosenwald
By threading together contemporary culture, visual pun, and the dogmas of art history, Rosenwald creates absurd, personal, and darkly funny portraits which illustrate what it feels like to be alive.
Featured: The History of Man, 2020, Colored pencil on canvas, 48 x 64”
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Corinne
Beardsley
Corinne Beardsley’s sculptures, installations, and performances reflect on sensory embodiment, mortality and objecthood. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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Corona Care Video
Sara Meghdari
An Iranian-American Interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Meghdari's work takes an eclectic approach in reflecting culture as well as the self and aims to create narratives that can transcend and complicate difference.
Featured: زن • (zan), Archival Pigment Print, 2020
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Panteha Abareshi
My name is Panteha Abareshi, and my practice focuses on the abject body, stemming from my own experience as disabled and chronically ill. Much of my work is rooted in performance, incorporated into video and installation. Currently I am focusing on the prosthetic, and the reimaging of the body as fundamentally inorganic, radically normalizing illness through the abstraction of what we consider to be the “natural,” “healthy” body.
Featured: Natural Disaster, Video installation, performance
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Magali Duzant
Magali Duzant is a NY based artist whose practice investigates the poetics of perception through installations, writing, and artist books. Her work has been exhibited internationally at the Queens Museum, UQO Gallery, Melbourne’s Centre for Contemporary Photography with upcoming exhibitions at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga and the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Dresden.
Featured: The Moon And Stars Can Be Yours : Notes on Subway Psychics was published by Conveyor Studio in 2019.
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Kymia Nawabi
Kymia Nawabi (b. 1980), a first generation Iranian-American living and working in Brooklyn, NY, is a multidisciplinary artist working in drawing, painting and sculpture.
Featured: “Wound to Wonder” (detail) 2018, acrylic and ink on paper, 40 x 30 in.
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Liz Zito
Liz Zito is a multimedia artist and humorist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work subverts main stream systems, recently focusing on power dynamics within our government officials. Zito has been working in art education for fifteen years and is currently staff and faculty at the School of Visual Arts, MFA Photography, Video and Related Media department.
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Larysa Myers
Larysa makes records of her personal history woven into the universal and cyclical, mythological and contemporary. The body is reduced to a female archetype where setting are domestic, wild, mundane and fantastical, each opening into different parts of the psyche and identity. She studied classical drawing and textile design in New York City and currently resides in Beacon, New York.
Featured: Lisa’s Garden, Graphite on Japanese Paper, 2020, 8.25" x 11.75“
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Dounia Bendris
Dounia Bendris is a disabled artist whose work explores the political, psychological, and physical impositions of Architecture through drawing, printmaking and bookmaking. She received MFA from Hunter College in 2019. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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Noelle Velez
Noelle is a painter and mixed media artist based in New York City, with a focus on high chroma watercolors and the exuberant richness of imagery found in the subconscious.
Featured: Life on the Outside, Watercolor on pape, r2020, 6"x6"
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Lila Freeman
Lila Freeman was born in Chicago, IL and moved to Brooklyn, NY at eighteen to attend Pratt Institute, where she earned a BFA in Drawing. She has been an artist-in-residence at The Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY) and The Ragdale Foundation (Lake Forest, IL), and has exhibited her work in numerous galleries and publications. She continues to live and makes art in Brooklyn, NY, and supports her art career by working as a public librarian.
Featured: Red School, Bushwick, studio view, 2018, Oil on canvas, 36 x 24
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Virgil Ortiz
Virgil Ortiz is a multi-media artist whose work blends historic events with sci-fi and fantasy, yielding imagery that is both ultramodern and futuristic. Virgil spent the last two months at the legendary Reitz Ranch Center for Ceramic Arts – a secluded studio, rich with history and legacy, the perfect storm for a quarantine residency to inspire a new body of work.
Featured: "No-len, Admiral of the Rez Spine Watchmen", 2019, High Fire Ceramic; 27”h x 23”w x 19”d
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Stefanie
Schairer
I am an artist and human being and creating my life in Berlin. In my work I am focused on painting / installation / video / performance-interaction in public space.
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Bahar Sabzevari
Bahar Sabzevari (b. 1980, Iran) is a visual artist based in New York, Brooklyn. She has a painting practice, exploring identity through self-portraiture, narrative painting and drawing. Sabzevari’s process is research and studio-based and involves the bringing together of complex imagery, symbols and narratives, often drawing from the fields of mythology, science, religion and art history in a humoristic way.
Featured: Untitled (crown series), 20x16in, Oil on wood panel, 2019
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Gina Dawson
is a sculptor who lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. She has had solo exhibitions in Paris, Boston, and New York as well as multiple group exhibitions in Texas, Boston, Baltimore, New York, and Philadelphia. Dawson has a diverse studio and sculptural practice which mostly involves incredibly laborious processes that often result in objects she is unsatisfied with, like most artists this leads her to make even more objects.
Featured: Work/Life Balance, watercolor, 8.5 x 11", 2020
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Tina Wang
Tina Wang is a performance artist. Identity, fragility, and resilience are key themes in her work, which draws on her experience as a Taiwanese citizen raised in Latin America. Her performances immerse the body around the objects of menial labor and challenge assumptions about where these objects belong, who belongs with them, and their relationship to living bodies.
Featured: Water Me, performance still, 2019, 20 x 30 x1.25
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Jonathan Torres
Torres was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1983 received his BFA in 2009 from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas, San Juan, and his MFA from Brooklyn College in 2011 under the mentorship of Vito Acconci. Nominee of the Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, Torres was selected for the Biennale Mercosul (Brazil 2016), won the Charles G. Shaw Award (NY, 2012) and the Arcos Dorados Award (Argentina, 2011). Torres has been exhibiting in solo and group shows between New York and Puerto Rico for over ten years. His work has been featured in Flash Art, Beautiful Decay, Art Observed, among other publications. Torres lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Featured: Mostro 2020 , 34" x 32" mixed media
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Isabella Cilia
Isabella Cilia is a Texas born painter based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is interested in what Gloria Anzaldúa calls Los Intersticios (the space between the different worlds we inhabit). Her recent work is set in Rancho Cuatro Colas, a semi-fictional Ranch based on her
childhood home, that draws on the meshing of Colombian, Mexican American, and Texan culture that she grew up in.
Featured: Casita Encantada , 2019, Oil on panel, 8" x 10"
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Loren Britton
is an interdisciplinary artist and thinker based in Berlin. Playing with radical pedagogy, re-positionings, co-creation and undoing oppressions and norms they make themselves responsible to matters of anti-racism, trans-feminist-techno-science, and making accessiblilities (considering both class and dis/ability). Britton is currently an artistic researcher on the interdisciplinary project Re: Coding Algorithmic Culture within the Gender/Diversity in Informatics Systems Research Group at the University of Kassel, DE. & Britton is a co-convener of the artistic research project Meltionary (@meltionary) that queers knowledges from computation and chemistry to unlock metaphors of melting in times of climate change, and explores unstable states of matter.
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Estefania Velez
Estefania Velez Rodriguez is a painter born in Mayaguez Puerto Rico and currently resides in Brooklyn New York. Her paintings are informed by contemporary education in Abstraction as well as personal digestion of cultural normalities within the United States of America. Finishing her MFA in painting with experimental studies in video media, she also creates sketch videos that address identity politics and time rupture. Her paintings formally address questions between abstraction, non-representation, simplification, symbol, and painting as a language with ambiguous structural limitations.
Featuring: World Services, 2020, 11”x14”, Gouache, Water Based Inks, Crushed Pastels, Pen on Watercolor Paper
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Michele Rushfeldt
is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her sculptures utilize materials associated with sexuality and kink, and depict how observations of fringe eroticism feel and look. Her works represent over-performative bodies, depicting a variety of elegant, glittering, dripping, and twisting sculptures and panels - characters in the midst of their sexual ‘acts,’ and a dependent on the architecture for their submissive support. In addition to curating exhibitions around the country, her work has been exhibited for nearly a decade throughout California, Washington, D.C., and New York, and she is currently a resident at Art Cake in Brooklyn.
Melissa Diaz
is a latinx artist, art therapist, professor of art therapy & community arts organizer. She integrates these roles by threading wellness and inclusion throughout. Melissa primarily works in interactive installation art, exploring of inner (intrapsychic) & outer space (interpsychic), while highlighting the power of playful engagement. In all areas she considers, growth, healing, transitional space, and micro-macro environments.
Suzanna Scott
Scott’s work explores feminist themes and visual ideas in and of the body. Entering her third decade as an artist, Scott employs a range of materials, including stone, wax, fiber, paper, resin, and the occasional found object. Her work has been widely exhibited in the United States and can be found in private collections worldwide. Scott currently lives and works in Ruston, Louisiana.
Featured: Paroxysm, 2018
Epoxy resin, aluminum foil, plaster, metal hardware, purse handle 13 x 10 x 6 1/2 in.
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Kinu Kamura
Kinu Kamura is a young French-Japanese artist. She spent most of her studies abroad between Tokyo, Paris and London. She started her art studies at the Parsons School and finally got graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2011. After her degree, she settles in Paris and works in different field such as digital marketing for luxury brands, film production, set design and last but not least Tattoo... All these experiences have inspired her artistic process and make it what it is today.
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Fatemeh Tarrah
is a painter from Iran. Her work develops with a collage of different elements from her sketches. The main elements of her work are the lights and the shadows. These two play the melody of silence and loneliness that we can hear it through doors and windows.
Featured: “Untitled” 2020, 30x40cm, Oil on canvas
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Tyler Podomik
Tyler Podomik is a ceramic sculptor from Pittsburgh, PA. His work is inspired by the beautiful complexity of relationships, civilizations, and general absurdity of the human race. Tyler is set to pursue his 3 year MFA degree in ceramics from Texas A&M University Corpus Christi in Fall 2020
Featured: “For Dad”, 2019, white stoneware, underglaze, 13”h x 13”w x 7”
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Mahsa Merci
Mahsa Merci, born in 1990 in Tehran, Iran, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from Tehran University of Art and a Master of Painting from Azad University in Iran. Currently, she is studying under a full scholarship from the University of Manitoba, Canada and working toward a Master of Fine Arts degree. Mahsa Merci has exhibited her works in over thirty-five solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Italy, UAE, India, Cyprus, Canada, UK and Iran. Her works are internationally published in various magazines in Iran, the UK, United States, and Norway.
Isabelle McCormick
Isabelle McCormick is a painter from St. Paul, Minnesota, in her second year of graduate school at Cranbrook Academy of Art. She paints as a way to slow down, filter the flood of online spectacle, and consider what it means to be a woman and artist in our hyperbolic world of retouching apps and reality TV. Isabelle is a graduate of the Brown University | Rhode Island School of Design Dual Degree Program. She has served as the Resident Fellow for RISD’s European Honors Program, and has worked in Museum Education and Public Programs at the San Diego Museum of Art, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Featured: 3/10/2020, oil on canvas with gold leaf and Swarovski crystal rhinestones, 38 x 30 x 1.25 in, 2020
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Eriko Hattori
Eriko Hattori (they/them) is a Pittsburgh-based artist. Hattori uses imagery, symbolism, and folklore to investigate the tension between sexual identity and cultural heritage. They aim to create personal mythologies that revolve around fetish, sexuality, and perceptions of femininity. With a rotating set of avatars, these icons act as anchors for conversations about perversion, desire, and the fetishism of bodies.
Featured: “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”, 2020,Gouache on paper, 18.5"x23"
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Kelsey Tynik
Kelsey Tynik is a multimedia artist living and working (currently in California) in Ridgewood, NY. She explores glee and sentimentally through material, technique and play. Her work offers a chance for repressed play to overflow and, in turn, gives opportunity for unification of humanity through experience.
Featured: “Cardboard Queen”, Found Cardboard and acrylic paint, 2020
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Rose Nestler
Rose Nestler is an interdisciplinary artist making sculptural and video based work. She received her MFA from Brooklyn College in 2017. Her work has been exhibited at a variety of galleries and institutions including, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Thierry Goldberg, Diane Rosenstein, BRIC, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Ortega Y Gasset, Underdonk, Smack Mellon, University of Illinois/Springfield, Crush Curatorial, SPACE in Portland, ME, CUCHIFRITOS Gallery and Project Space, and PUBLIC Gallery in London. She has been an artist in residence at Lighthouse Works, Edward F. Albee Foundation, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Wassaic Project and Byrdcliffe Artists Colony. In 2021 she will be an artist in residence at Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, LA. She teaches at Parsons School of Design and CUNY College of Staten Island.
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Lou Rie
Lou Rie is a Canadian artist living and working in Barcelona, Spain. She works at the intersection of painting, performance, photography, film and new media. She has exhibited internationally and is currently working on an artificial intelligence based project with a team from Montreal, Canada.
Featured: “La Dolce Vita”, Photograph (on light box), 2016-2020, 136 x 103 x 9 cm
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Farrell Mason Brown
Farrell is a self-taught artist living in Brooklyn, NY. She has performed with performance art group Day de Dada and worked with Wangechi Mutu as her assistant making bronze sculptures. She has exhibited her work in New York and Massachusetts.
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Tutu Gallery
Tutu Gallery is a DIY gallery located in Bedstuy Brooklyn dedicated to under-the-radar artists who are self-taught, students or of foreign nationalities, run by a black cat named Tutu. Tutu displays works that stay true to our ordinary experience of being.
Dana Robinson
Currently Robinson has work online with Medium Tings, Stay at Home Gallery, and Selena’s Mountain. Robinson graduated from the School of Visual Arts with an MFA in Fine Art, is currently living and working in Brooklyn. She is preparing to show work for the first time in a virtual reality environment at Untitled Art Online with LatchKey Gallery and Selena’s Mountain later this month.
Featured: “The Kind of World I Want for My Child”, Feb 2020, 16 x 20 inches, Acrylic on wooden panel
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