Fountain House Gallery Presents 100 Original Works in “Art in Quarantine“

“During this period of isolation, the member-artists of Fountain House have explored what ‘art in quarantine’ looks like,” said Karen Gormandy, Fountain House Studio Coordinator. “While sheltering in place, we find ourselves in our own company, away from the sights, sounds, and all sensory memories that informed us that we are connected to each other. We’ve lost track of time and worked at not losing track of ourselves. To reconnect, we have found ways to make art. Fishing around for tools, we searched for paper, paint, or wire, old books, spices for pigment, scissors, foil. We examined how we could manifest the artistic impulse. We looked outward or inward for inspiration. We bounced around in our heads and couldn’t focus. Looking inward, we were confronted with a new fear or a certain beauty. We gazed longingly out the window and wished we could go about our business. We looked in and away from the mirror. We discovered beauty that was always there—a beauty that lived in our memory or presented itself in front of us, in our confined present. The mundane became profound. We reached for our art in whatever place we could find it. It was captured, it was what we wanted or didn’t. It didn’t matter; it is what we have.”