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Secluded | Art 480/580 Painting Studio Practice

Lionel Rombach Gallery

Hot, hot, hot!

Hot, hot, hot!

Sanitation Spray Bottles

Sanitation Spray Bottles

Taco Line 1

Taco Line 1

Buckets of Sanitation Solution

Buckets of Sanitation Solution

Lion Entangled

Lion Entangled

Se lo Merecía (She Deserved It)

Se lo Merecía (She Deserved It)

Gritty Mesmerism #1

Gritty Mesmerism #1

Gritty Mesmerism #2

Gritty Mesmerism #2

Mitch’s Rumination

Mitch’s Rumination

First Impressions 7

First Impressions 7

First Impressions 6

First Impressions 6

First Impressions 5

First Impressions 5

First Impressions 4

First Impressions 4

First Impressions 3

First Impressions 3

Totem #2 (A Balancing Act)

Totem #2 (A Balancing Act)

First Impressions 2

First Impressions 2

First Impressions 1

First Impressions 1

Across, Over, Under. (A Balancing Act)

Across, Over, Under. (A Balancing Act)

Across, Over, Under. (A Balancing Act)

Across, Over, Under. (A Balancing Act)

Across, Over, Under. (A Balancing Act)

Across, Over, Under. (A Balancing Act)

Across, Over, Under. (A Balancing Act)

Across, Over, Under. (A Balancing Act)

Anxiety

Anxiety

Secluded

Fatema Abizar
Mia Garcia
Mitchell Hughes
Emily Kray
Vanessa Saavedra
Jesús Sanchez
Ariana Sturr

Secluded is a showcase of works created by Art 480/580, Painting Studio Practice, during quarantine. Each painting is connected to each other through the artists’ shared simultaneous experience of a forced state of seclusion.

These artworks express our recently established backgrounds with self-confinement through a variety of expressions. Loss, decay, and grievance live alongside mythology, personal growth, and the great outdoors. But, the differential experiences that this particular group of artists shared also exposes the connective tissue working behind the scenes. The stories considering “when” and “why” bubble up, creating a multidimensional and communal space that reminds us that most of our lives have all recently drastically changed in a blink of an eye. Our jobs as artists are to absorb, digest, and then to create, now after months of seclusion…this exhibition navigates the guarantee that art will still prevail.