Artist Panel - Quarantine Picture Show - Part 1
Saturday, May 30, 2020
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
ARTIST PANEL: QUARANTINE PICTURE SHOW - Part 1
Irene Carvajal, Klea McKenna, and Adam Thorman
Moderated by Victoria Mara Heilweil
On May 30, 2020 SF Camerawork presented one of a two part online panel discussion of Quarantine Picture Show, moderated by curator and SFC member Victoria Mara Heilweil. Irene Carvajal, Klea McKenna, and Adam Thorman continue to rely on networks, light and creative inspiration in this pandemic age. They shared work from their most recent projects produced while sheltering in place and maintaining social distance.
IRENE CARVAJAL In the silence of shelter in place, Irene Carvajal thinks about language, and the human need to communicate. In her videos, the artist light also serves as a shining beacon in the darkness. Carvajal is a San Francisco based artist, educator and curator, and SFC member. Her multidisciplinary practice includes printmaking, collage, sculpture, installation and video. Irene’s artwork investigates the political and cultural weight of colonialism, often seen through utilitarian mass produced objects.
KLEA MCKENNA Klea McKenna replicates a version of her fine art practice at home making cameraless photograms. In her series Gesture, McKenna reflects on the collective experience of waiting, watching, and learning to exist in uncertainty. Handkerchiefs are used as objects placed on watercolor ink emulsion and placed in her front window allowing the public to watch them transform over time. The objects used are symbols of personal health, hygiene and compassion for others. McKenna is a visual artist who creates photograms, photo-reliefs, photo-rubbings and video, using materials such as vintage textiles, cross sections of trees and rain. She is an SFC member and donor to the annual SFC Auction. McKenna is represented by Euqinom Gallery in San Francisco and Gitterman Gallery in New York.
ADAM THORMAN In his series Social Distancing Portraits, started at the beginning of the spring Bay Area quarantine, Adam Thorman creates portraits of his friends through their windows. These portraits speak to feelings of connection and distance experienced during this time of quarantine as people connect in whatever way possible without actually coming into contact. Thorman is an artist, photographer, and educator based in Oakland, CA who makes work about things that exist on the line between two different states simultaneously.
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