An all media exhibition focusing on what artists have been working on with the global impact of COVID-19. Asking artists “What have you been creating in response? How has your work shifted due to self-isolation and quarantine?”
Global Impact: The Wake of Covid at the Foundry Art Centre Interview Produced by HEC TV
Foundry Global Impact PSA Produced by the City of St. Charles
My Thoughts
This exhibition was unique in the fact that due to the pandemic several changes had to be made with already established calendar of exhibitions. This lead to Impact II, the original title, becoming Global Impact: The Wake of Covid redirecting the focus on what was going on in the world, and that kind of exhibition requiring to fill the 4,500 sqft of gallery space. The gallery could only accept 73 pieces of the 248 submitted entries, and held works from 67 artists from around the world.
Many of the works speak on isolation, building from the little things, as well as larger issues like the humanitarian crisis that was going on with Brianna Taylor and George Floyd at the time. Beyond traveling exhibitions that I had had put on at the time, this was one of the first juried shows in a long time that took up all 3 gallery spaces.