Shelter in Place Drawing #12
Two-Dimensional Wall Art > Drawings (Ink/Ink Wash)
14 x 16 x 1
$3,600.00
Artwork #
110
Artist's Statement
Shelter in Place
Drawing # 12
In May when I drew “Sheltering in Place Drawing # 12” the curve of infections and deaths were rising rapidly, especially in southern California and New York City. My home town of Bolinas was a part of a Bay Area Covid testing study, one of the first in the nation. This piece is a shift into abstract figuration. Working from bottom to top, my white spaces on the horizontal lines form into head shapes. These many different shapes are connected to each other along each of the lines, stacking and interconnecting. Like waiting in line for a Covid test, shopping for food, virus casualties, and gridlock. This is the first figurative type drawing from this series, going back to 2008. The masses have revealed themselves into my non-representational drawing practice. Masses of Covid. Masses of death. Masses of civil unrest. Masses of upheavals and change.
Artist
Chris Whitefield
Contact Information
cgwsessions@hotmail.com
