Featured visual pieces: Spring 2023

Featured visual pieces

Do you know that moment after your night shift ends and your morning comes?

Before the morning comes

Death

Jessie Holliday Duane (she/hers) | 2022

Covid and solitude

Rosa Padilla | Oleo on wood

Seasons

Impermanence

Jesus Garcia (he/him) | 2022

The heart carries the human experience

Taylor Jazrawi (she/hers) | 2022

Lighter in pieces

Jeniffer Paez (she/hers) | 2020

Surrealism was my escape during the pandemic lockdown in the year 2020. I let my mind travel and explore when my body could not and with that came a collection of works from March 2020 to February 2021 that expressed a freedom of the mind.

This is a paper mache sculpture representing death. it is one of 22 sculptures depicting the Tarot archetypes that we meet on our journey through life. It was made in August 2020 when the spector of death loomed large in the collective unconscious. I wanted to move away from images like the grim reaper to a portrayal of death as a mystery, the other side of the coin, an intrinsic aspect of duality. To me this sculpture evokes compassion, letting go as well as such mystery.

The collage mimics our aging heart and experiences we collectively share as humans. We have all been impacted by the pandemic in some way. The numbers on the heart represent an aging heart that is experiencing some of life's beautiful moments (examples: finding your purpose, finding a life partner).

Margot Gardin (she/hers) | 2022

Jesus Garcia (he/him) | 2017

Venus (Undressing)

Audrey Chang (she/they) | 2022

Sagittal plane

Claire Young (she/hers) | 2022

The year the earth stood still

Naina Rao (she/hers) | 2020

For the women of Iran

Sandra Squarcia (she/her) | 2018

2 rural women walking to freedom & equality, by SQUARCIA Parma, January 2018, pencil on paper, 8″ x 8″ (20×20 cm): handbook cover contest submission for the U.N. Committee on the Status of Women 62: Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls. The 2 women are depicted as shadows, the faces are not recognizable, meaning that they can be all the women of the world, from all areas, background, class, race, and meaning that the road towards the ultimate goal is not granted, not easy, not fast, not bright, not defined, but is a struggle in progress to reach light through darkness and through shadows: but it is a cause that mankind must fight for, especially in Iran.

Design for a prosthetic finger

Aadith Vittala (he/him) | 2022