A highlight of the Jasper Art Gallery's eventual relaunch strategy is "Love in the Time of COVID" a special exhibition of local art aimed at exploring what love's got do with it - Covid-19 that is. The show will encompass a number of issues from seeing how relationships have evolved in the pandemic to (re)learning how to appreciate the smaller things and much in between. Above all, "Love in the Time of Covid" will encourage openness and sharing of current struggles through art.
Opening later in May 2021, the show will hang in real-time within our presently closed gallery and can be viewed by private appointment or more excitingly, in the form of a virtual gallery tour on JAG's various social media channels.
I am happy to preview a custom framed (11 x 14 inch), mixed-media submission for the upcoming exhibition called "Embrace". Incorporating a linear, erotic motif by early twentieth century Fauvist master, Henri Matisse; this playful piece is bordered with intuitive ink markings and expressive vignettes. Think of "Embrace" as an ode to life, joy and physical abandonment in the time of Covid.
