CARRIE SECRIST GALLERY
Murmur Ring partnered with Carrie Secrist Gallery to highlight the shifts in art making and engaging that have occurred amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Creatives had never felt this level of disconnection. To provide both an opportunity and a forum where they could not only reconnect physically, but also creatively, by having their work shown with each other... I thought that was not only an interesting idea but a really needed idea.”
Carrie Secrist
Inspired by a short epigraph on the title page of E.M. Forster’s novel Howards End, the exhibit Only Connect was about the connection, conversation, and support found between artists, amidst a time of unprecedented isolation brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Murmur Ring captured the exhibition on film.
LILIANA PORTER & ANA TISCORNIA
DIANA GUERRA-MACÍA
ANTONIA CONTRO, CLARA LYON, & HANNAH COLLINS
LILIANA PORTER & ANA TISCORNIA
“Why the show? Why at this time? During the pandemic everything has become purposeful. Everyone does everything for a purpose. You go to the store for a purpose. All the extra has been taken away. Also, the market has been a less driving force for the the artists. They’re able to return to a more pure, primal, and purposeful intention for creation. Which is why I do what I do.”
Carrie Secrist
Usual Objects is a still life exhibition that “examines the contemporary still life in the current context of the coronavirus pandemic against this historic backdrop.”
While Only Connect prompted artists to rely on the partnership and support of fellow artists, Usual Objects asks us to turn inward, examining the objects that we find ourselves spending more time with now than ever before.
BRENDAN GETZ
NICOLE DYER
MATT LIPPS
“I always like to think about artists as contemporary mythmakers where they are in an environment, they recede from that environment and then they translate it and bring it back as record of that time. In that notion, artists are really thriving in my opinion in this time.”
Carrie Secrist
AMANDA ROSS-HO
The group exhibition Plain Air featured nine artists exploring the traditional genre of landscape.
Each of the exhibitions in this series have tracked our lived experiences throughout the pandemic. Plain Air, the third installment in the series, captured a moment of reprieve with our access to vaccinations and the changing of political leadership. On view prior to the new COVID-19 variants, the exhibition plays the tradition of plein air painting with landscape as the ideal and original muse for artistic interpretation.
TANYA BRODSKY
LESLIE BAUM
OLIVIA SCHREINER
“I love seeing the work in all the different ways the artists who I’m sharing the gallery with are engaging with it from mediated space of the computer screen to the banal daily routine of walking your dog. How all of these different things are meaningful.”
— Leslie Baum
OLIVIA SCHREINER
SOPHIE TREPPENDAHL
DEBORAH BROWN
ANDREW HOLMQUIST
“Plein air painting is about looking directly at nature for inspiration. It’s about removing any kind of mediation, any kind of screen, whether that’s literal or figurative, that gets between the artists body and the landscape.”
— Andrew Holmquist
Was/Is/Ought
The fourth exhibition in this series, Was/Is/Ought explores the mystery, dilemma and fluidity of time, made evident during the pandemic.
As the gallery describes it: “The end of 2019 will mark history in most of our lifetimes as the last we knew as “normal” or what Was life as we knew it. The new world landscape of 2020 ushered a paradigm shift toward intensely present living, for what we understood to be what Is began to shift precariously and constantly beneath our feet… As the dust begins to settle, we move toward a hopeful and trepidatious post-pandemic world, carrying forward resolutions in science, politics and personal reassessment of purpose / importance of all things. 2021 is the first year of what is next, and how it Ought to be.”
ANNE LINDBERG
AMANDA ROSS-HO & ZACH BRUDER
CHUCK RAMIREZ
Art has the capacity to confound and shift time.
— Diana Guerrero-Maciá
What keeps me going back to the studio is things exceed my ability to imagine them.
— Scott Stack
DIANA GUERRERO-MACIÁ
SCOTT STACK
HILMA'S GHOST
ARTISTS IN PLAIN AIR
LESLIE BAUM
TANYA BRODSKY
DEBORAH BROWN
SPENCER CARMONA
ANDREW HOLMQUIST
MIKE HOWAT
OLIVIA SCHREINER
SOPHIE TREPPENDAHL
EMMA WHITE
ARTISTS IS/WAS/OUGHT
WHITNEY BEDFORD
ZACH BRUDER
ANTONIA CONTRO
STEPHEN EICHHRON
BRENDAN GETZ
DIANA GUERRERO-MACIÁ
HILMA’S GHOST
ANNE LINDBERG
CHUCK RAMIREZ
KAY ROSEN
AMANDA ROSS-HO
SCOTT STACK
OLI WATT
AGUSTINA WOODGATE
CREDITS
MIRIAM DOAN
Photography — Only Connect
Film — Only Connect and Usual Objects
NATHAN KEAY
Photography — Only Connect, Usual Objects, Plain Air, Was/Is/Ought
JEREMY STARK
Editing — Only Connect and Usual Objects
LEE HART
Audio — Only Connect and Usual Objects
JACKIE TREZZO
Film & Photography — Plain Air ,Was/Is/Ought
MEGAN DIDDIE
Editing — Plain Air, Was/Is/Ought
ARTISTS IN ONLY CONNECT
DANNIELLE TEGEDER & SHARMISTHA RAY
MEGAN GREENE & THALIA AGOSTO
DIANA GUERRO-MACIÁ & JESSE HARROD
ANTONIA CONTRO, CLARA LYON & HANNAH COLLINS
ANNE LINDBERG & GINNY THREEFOOT
LILIANA PORTER & ANA TISCORNIA
EARTH ART CREATIVES & CAROLYN OTTMERS
LISA SOLAR & LIZ NIELSEN
WHITNEY BEDFORD & ANNA SCHACHTE
HEATHER BECKER & JEANNE GANG
ARTISTS IN USUAL OBJECTS
AMANDA ROSS-HO
BRENDAN GETZ
CHRIS BRADLEY
LILIANA PORTER
NICOLE DYER
MATT LIPPS
MADELEINE LEPLAE