“There is another world, but it is in this one,” said Surrealist poet Paul Éluard. In this exhibition, artists look to the future, imagining how we move forward from the tumultuous events of the past year. [read more]
Art in the Plague Year is an online exhibition organized by UCR ARTS: California Museum of Photography and curated by Douglas McCulloh, Nikolay Maslov, and Rita Sobreiro Souther. UCR ARTS’s programs are supported by UCR College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, the City of Riverside, Altura Credit Union, and Anheuser-Busch.
All works in this exhibition are reproduced with permission of the artists/copyright holders. Works (images, video, audio or other content) must not be used or reproduced for any purposes other than fair use without prior consent of the artists.
(b. 1953, Santa Barbara, CA. Live and works in Los Angeles, CA)
Hope=Strength
Darryl Curran created Hope=Strength using a scanner-as-camera. On the glass platen he placed a claw hammer (he tried various), twine, a small rose, and finally—complicating the construction—a photogram from 2011. The photogram itself shows a shadowy hammer and a branching leaf. The piece, states Curran, sets the living, the organic, against hard reality.
