MCAD showcases student art from the year of coronavirus Alicia Eler, Star Tribune
As COVID restrictions loosen and life starts returning to normal albeit still filled with hand sanitizer and masks artists are reflecting on the year that wasn t.
The Minneapolis College of Art and Design facilitates that reflection through three exhibitions featuring work primarily by current students or alumni. Sprawled across three flexible spaces, these shows remind us of the times we are in while also offering something to contemplate other than lockdown life. 2021 Made at MCAD features work by 41 BFA and MFA students over the past year.
Tamar Patterson, 24, a senior in entrepreneurial studies, created a series of black-and-white archival inkjet prints titled My Mother s Daughter, for which she posed with her mother at her family s house in Burnsville.
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Okwui Enwezor imagined the exhibition
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America as a direct and necessary intervention into the 2020 presidential election campaign in the United States. If the show had opened as planned, at the New Museum in New York last October, it would have been poised to interrupt albeit from the margins of high culture the chaotic, overheated, and largely empty rhetoric of the political campaign with an elegant articulation of substantive artistic responses to the harrowing and unrelenting experience of extreme anti-Black violence in this country, coalescing rather beautifully with months and years of critical thinking and crucial protest from the Black Lives Matter movement. But Enwezor died in 2019 at the age of just fifty-five, following a long fight with cancer. Nothing went as planned last year, and so the show was postponed.
Filmmaker Steven Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw helped fund the painting s acquisition.
March 8, 2021
Amy Sherald in her studio
with her portrait of Breonna Taylor (2020). Photo by Joseph Hyde courtesy of Hauser & Wirth.
Vanity Fair.
Taylor was asleep in bed on March 13, 2020, when police officers forced their way into her apartment and fatally shot the 26-year-old emergency medical technician. Her death became a rallying cry in the Black Lives Matter protests that swept the nation last year.
Ta-Nehisi Coates,
Vanity Fair’s guest editor for a special edition on activism in September 2020, had tapped Sherald to paint Taylor for the issue’s cover. It was the artist’s second commission, after painting the official portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama.