Lost & Found - Jessica Krichels
November 6th-27th, 2020
The prints in this exhibition represent more of a process of creating than a purposeful, planned body of work. From March 15th of this year- when schools and life as we know it were shut down due to Covid-19- to early August when the streets were filled with protesters and demands for justice, I felt a true compulsion to create as many prints as possible as a visual expression of the ideas and feelings that I was experiencing. The making of this art helped incalculably in my own well-being during this period- the studio being a calm, cool place for reflection and creation- a way to channel my emotions and busy-brain thoughts about the events in the world.
Daily I felt an overload of images from the news online drilling into my head- charts, and maps and data formed into ballooning dots on maps; images of cities and hospitals, then protesters and frontline workers… All of this swarmed in my head and emerged as the shapes, layers, diagrams, dots, miasmas, scribbles and images you see my prints.
In these pieces the red dots are the spots of contagion- and their connection to other spots of contagion- with the spread that we witness as ever-growing circles on national and international maps. The repeating shapes, vectors and arrows represent the overwhelming barrage of statistics we are subject to, and the grids are aerial views of the spreads of cities... the grey-green shadows are land masses or perhaps creeping fogs of virus spreading across maps.
There are virus nodules connecting to others in sneaky ways, (sometimes even in the form of a zoom call.) Arrows point to connections, new and also unknown, dangerous and human. With all this, I wanted to create something beautiful and complex that evokes the virus and my emotions these times using my own visual tropes and language.
What have we lost and what have we found during the time of this pandemic?
PLEASE NOTE: Prints in this exhibition are no longer for sale online. However, many are still for sale in our gallery. If you're interested in a piece, please contact us and we'll see if it's still available for sale.
Daily I felt an overload of images from the news online drilling into my head- charts, and maps and data formed into ballooning dots on maps; images of cities and hospitals, then protesters and frontline workers… All of this swarmed in my head and emerged as the shapes, layers, diagrams, dots, miasmas, scribbles and images you see my prints.
In these pieces the red dots are the spots of contagion- and their connection to other spots of contagion- with the spread that we witness as ever-growing circles on national and international maps. The repeating shapes, vectors and arrows represent the overwhelming barrage of statistics we are subject to, and the grids are aerial views of the spreads of cities... the grey-green shadows are land masses or perhaps creeping fogs of virus spreading across maps.
There are virus nodules connecting to others in sneaky ways, (sometimes even in the form of a zoom call.) Arrows point to connections, new and also unknown, dangerous and human. With all this, I wanted to create something beautiful and complex that evokes the virus and my emotions these times using my own visual tropes and language.
What have we lost and what have we found during the time of this pandemic?
PLEASE NOTE: Prints in this exhibition are no longer for sale online. However, many are still for sale in our gallery. If you're interested in a piece, please contact us and we'll see if it's still available for sale.
