Covid Chronicles

Black and white prints

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In Collections: Creativity in the Time of COVID-19

Copyright Status: In Copyright

Date Created: 2019/2022

Artists: Pierce, Shattuck Ellen

Subjects: COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- , in art

Material Type: Prints (visual works)

Language: No linguistic content

Extent: 10 relief carvings

Genre Note: Linoleum prints

Exhibit Label: Linoleum is a sketchbook for me, a meditative place. Making a linocut print allows me to slowly carve lines that are very certain in the this uncertain time. Since Match 16th, 2020, I have created art related to the Covid-19 pandemic, resulting in the "Covid Chronicles," a series of sixteen relief carvings. The carvings, each measuring 18" by 24", chronicle my experience of the Covid-19 pandemic in Boston, Massachusetts, and its wider impact in the United States. As a Mother and art teacher in a public school, I have had a window through which to view the pandemic's effect on families' lives. With the pivot to online teaching, I zoomed into two hundred and thirty homes to teach art to kindergarteners through fifth graders. Making linocut prints gave me some sense of agency. By recording the pain, anxiety, and grief I witnessed, I aimed to escape the despair and make sense of the chaos. This series serves as a remembrance and validation of our shared experience --Label design by exhibit curator Nancy DeJoy. Labels written by Ben Lash and his team in consultation with artist statements.

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1 of 1: Covid Chronicles. Part 02

An abstract linoleum print, proofed with black ink and carved to reveal details in white. In the center, a person sits at a table with a respirator mask. On the table is a symbol of America overlapped with a flag, the stripes from the flag holding down a heart and bust statues of people. Next to the table, a carton of milk is tipped over and spills outwards, creating a flood at the bottom of the piece. Above the person, eyes cry tears, next to an angel with wings that are lungs, and a sun in the right corner. Underneath the sun, on the right, is an empty stadium with a banner that reads "Boston hope" in capital letters. Beneath the stadium is a pig pen, and one of the pigs steps in the spilled milk. To the left side, a truck drives through with a cherry picker in its trunk, holding up a person that puts posters of people on a building.

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Extent: 1 relief carving

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