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Visit the exhibition in person or experience the exhibition in this 30-minute video with an intimate view of each piece accompanied by the words of the artist.

As all our lives are disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, local artists have continued their creative work in their homes and studios. Working from inside—physically and psychologically—they have expressed and reflected on their experience through their art. While the Museum presented virtual tours of artists’ studios during this time of isolation, we also invited those who participated to select a work to include in this exhibition, which is generously sponsored by Gould Asset Management LLC.

Participating artists were asked to select and submit one work produced or completed since March 2020, along with a brief statement about it. With no restrictions on medium, size, style or subject, the resulting 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.