“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.
EPOCH is an artist-run virtual gallery. For Art in the Plague Year it is, therefore, a meta-gallery, a gallery within a gallery. This small hall of mirrors continues. Quite evidently, we have curated a curator. In addition, EPOCH is a context to experience art which simultaneously positions itself as an artwork. The project is the creation of artist Peter Wu+ and was launched during quarantine. Wu+ envisions the project as “an inclusive community-building platform supporting BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ artists.” States Wu+: “Entering a space which is still unexplored, this project challenges the status quo with each exhibition. EPOCH’s goal is to react and reflect current socio-political situations while providing artists with a critical space for people to engage their works virtually.” For Art in the Plague Year, Wu+ offers unique scene renderings from two previous EPOCH exhibitions.
