“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. Los Angeles, CA. Lives and works in Los Angeles)
(un)real landscapes: Los Angeles plays itself
Karen Constine’s project is based in a familiar transformative maneuver. She walked the street of Los Angeles and made digital infrared photographs. (For tech geeks, the artist employs color enhanced 665nm IR. The process emulates Kodak’s classic Aerochrome infrared film.) Los Angeles, of course, is the movie backlot of the world—a pretend land, a place for dreamers. Covid-19 layers on an additional blanket of Surreality. The project, states Constine,“explores what a pandemic society looks like—otherworldly, unreal.”
