San Francisco
Modernism is pleased to present: Created in Place an #EssentialArt Online Exhibition, September 5-October 24, 2020.
Resurrection, 2020
Price on Request
...Pondering..., 2020
Young girl in Supergirl outfit showing her hand-drawn “BLACK LIVES MATTER” poster, at conclusion of march with her family through the San Francisco Castro district. July 4, 2020, 2020
“Lady Liberty Reclining” mural on building wall, at 4th and Welsh Streets, 2019
Family preparing for “BLACK LIVES MATTER” Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy march through the San Francisco Castro district on July 4, 2020, 2020
COVID-19 masked man pushing masked amputee in wheelchair along Market Street, San Francisco, 2020
A chalk drawn “BLACK LIVES MATTER” optimistic sentiment, on Cabrillo Street, in Richmond district of San Francisco, 2020
Jewish mother participating in “BLACK LIVES MATTER” march through the San Francisco Castro district, July 4, 2020, 2020
BLACK LIVES MATTER” march leaving San Francisco Civic Center Rally traveling to the Castro District on June 5, 2020, 2020
Woman in Long Dress, 2020
Portrait of E, distressed, 2020
Portrait of V (detail), 2020
Modernism is pleased to present: Created in Place an #EssentialArt Online Exhibition, September 5-October 24, 2020. Early this Spring Modernism temporarily closed, three days after opening Naomie Kremer’s Embodiment exhibition, due to the COVID-19 pandemic shelter-in-place orders.Shortly thereafter we launched our #EssentialArt program, a series of video vignettes visiting our artists’ studios over the past five months. Today we are pleased to share a broad presentation of works “Created in Place” during this unprecedented and challenging period, a time in which our artists have flourished, each taking a different approach to their work. Judy Dater in Berkeley begun her Plague Journal on day one of the shelter-in-place, an ongoing photo- and text-based diary chronicling her new daily life. Gottfried Helnwein in Ireland, whose work, fittingly for this time, already addresses the human condition and ills of the world, revisited his iconic Mickey Mouse portrait series, with the large-scale painting Crimson Mouse, in which Mickey looms with portent. Jacques Villeglé, isolating in St. Malo, France, also “confined” himself to making drawings on the subject “L’art est?” (Art is?). For photographer Stephen Somerstein, who photo-documented the famous 1965 Selma to Montgomery march led by Martin Luther King, Jr., there was no question that he would take as his subject the current Black Lives Matter protests in San Francisco. We hope you will enjoy this special #EssentialArt exhibition of works “Created in Place” during this shared global experience.
