Online Exhibition – Creativity and COVID: Art-Making During the Pandemic
This Online Art Exhibit titled “Creativity and COVID: Art-Making During the Pandemic” features art created in the last year in response to the emotional impact of the pandemic. The call was open to all those who identify as having struggled, in some manner or another, with mental distress.
Click on each piece to see the artist’s statement and biography. Stay tuned for an interview series with a few of the artists, which will be posted here as well as on Mad in America’s social media. View the interviews with the artists here.
Click here to read more about the exhibit and curator Karin Jervert’s lived experience with mental distress and the healing power of art.
Please note if your internet connection is slow, images may take a few seconds to load as you scroll. If you are having any technical issues viewing the gallery, please contact Karin Jervert at kjervert [@] madinamerica.com
Robert Batemans Eagle by John Tukey
Floating in My Existential Dread by Julia Parker
Painting of a Robert Frost Poem by Cathy Denton
Psychopoly by Phoebe Wagner
Flow of Consciousness by Ellen McCord
Mother by Melissa LaFontaine
Sandusky Ohio by Leigha Cohen
Longing by Deepa Kamath
Body Electric by Lakey Goff
Me, myself and I by Bertel Rüdinger
Bluegreen by Katie Hart Teixeira
Sugar Skull by Ken Segal
Depression is an Octopus by Tina Arnoldi
A Lamp Unto My Mouth by Chuck Dooms
Imperfection by Jaimie Sotsky
The Nurse by Jacqueline Dunn
What Are The Roots That Clutch by Elena Coyne
Crazy Love by Marianne Lykke Nielsen
Ruth by Ragan McManus
Something Has Happened by Charlotte Selvig Svensen
Man Blue Shirt Beige Foot Howard Weiner
Pronounced Torment by Adam Williamson
The Front Line by Jennifer Siciliano
Journey of Ascension: Form to Formless by Lauren Spiro
Keep Fighting - It's Worth It by Ellie Page
Kaleidoscope Emotionality by Howard Edelbaum
Walled Off-Breaking Through by Iris Wiinikka
Unsensored in America by Briana Connell
I.R.I.S. by Kay Hua
Love Pollinated the Universe by Jen Thompson
Monster Virus Over NYC by Issa Ibrahim
Two Stories by Larry Cox
Abeel Street Cranes, Stop by Matthew Kelly
Living in the Love Heart by Nat Barden
Better Than The Childhood They Suffered by Adam Forguites
Reflections by Andrew Brady
Open Engulfing Mouth by Jen Padron
Christmas Card by Kathy Breda
Sanctuary by Valerie Perdue
Medusa's First Period Louise Devismes
There Is An Octopus In The Room Phyllis Levine
Glam Goth by Evelyn Reeves
The Deep I by Leslie Holt
Tessaʻs Childhood Dream by Dylan Iolani Puʻu
Crazy Mind Mouth Shut by Monique Jacobs
The Tree of Sorrows by Samantha Baumgartner
2020 in Retrospect by Steven T. Licardi
Tamsyn's Tangle by Edlynn Bindler
Unfurling Princeling by Girija Kaimal
Neuroplasticity and the Artist by Heather Sanchez
Blue Death Red Virus by Olivia Craine
Observe by Benjamin Tran
Mug hand? by Beth Heinecamp
Burning by Jordan Thomas
Mom and Jen by Julie Vesely
Making it Through by Nadav Ben-David
The Effect of Pandemic Stress on Complex PTSD by Shay Seaborne
One Meter by Siv Helen Rydheim
Migraine by Bridgette Bramlage
Hear me. by Denise Rodgers
Zoom Gallery Studies (11/24/20 to present) by Lydia Eccles
Look At Me by Shenyun Chen
Untitled by XiXi Zhai
Sorrow Without Name by Kaitlin Botts
Rinse by Catherine Falco
The High Priestess by Christopher Botts
Dream Reflection by Dunstan Bretton
Children of Liviathan by Liana Brennan
Snoopy Wearing a Mask Jennifer Dahling
Stella Blue Bipolar Butterfly by Kimmy Henderson
Peace 19, Hope by Shari Herndon
Dream Reflection by Franklin Castro
Enlightened while Celebrating our Brokenness by Christina Walsh
Mount Vernon by Edward Morales
Quarantine Home by Valerie Moran-Clark
X-RAY by Brian H
COVID-19 by Andrew Koloski
Exodus by Christopher Fairley Jr.
Mantenga Su Distancia by Juan Cassiani
Leaving Isolation by Margaret Phinney
The negative impact COVID has a Mental Health Counselor by Stephanie Fisk
The Involuntary Semiotician on the Inside by Adrianne Stacey