“As we round the corner to the 2020 election we thought it might be a good time to reflect on our 2017 exhibition ‘Pre’. I remember thinking about how important the making of art was and would continue to be – as a form of protest as well as personal mental salvation. Politicians and leaders come and go, we rarely remember their names, but we do remember the art and artists of the time.
Today, almost four years after the election, we're still reeling from our country's decision to vote for Donald Trump, but back then we had no idea what would be in store for us in the upcoming years. The basic idea I had for ‘Pre’ was to select works by artists that were political as well as apolitical, the only rule being that the work had been made before election day. What would that look like? How would the works dance between themselves and create their own narrative together?
In this, our first Viewing Room, we re-present ‘Pre,’ as we are again Pre-election. 2020 has been quite a year for all of us and no less so for the artists included in ‘Pre’. We are proud to show you some of their current works, links, and images from shows they have been involved with in the intervening years as well as to get inside some of their processes for making work. Luckily for us, most artwork does not spoil like food, but continues to exist and take on different contexts and meanings via its relationships to each other and, most vitally, to time.”
-Ana Wolovick (Black Ball Projects Co-founder)
Ana Wolovick, Director at Black Ball Projects, interviewed me a few months ago and put together this online viewing gallery spotlighting my studio practice and latest body for work, which was made during the quarantine.
