April 17 - December 5, 2021
Mint Museum Uptown at Levine Center for the Arts
Raymond Grubb. Citizen of Mimosa City with Michaux's Tree Silk, digital pigment print. Courtesy of the artist and SOCO Gallery. |
Emin Özman. Istanbul, Turkey, 2020. Courtesy of Magnum Photos Agency. |
Beverly McIver. Covid 19 Series: Blinding Light, oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Betty Cuningham Gallery. |
On April 17, 2021, one year after North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper issued stay-at-home orders for the state, the Mint Museum Uptown will open Silent Streets: Art in the Time of Pandemic, an exhibition presenting work of local, regional, national and international artists who documented the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on their lives and on their worlds. The works on view are as diverse as the artists who made them. Silent Streets presents a range of media—painting, sculpture, collage, printmaking, graphic illustration, video, sound, and photography—to offer a survey of specific approaches that tackled these intensely challenging times in different ways and with different voices. From comic strips to abstract painting, Silent Streets embraces the potential of all art forms to grapple with the most urgent issues of our day, providing viewers with both solace and insight. The exhibition continues The Mint Museum’s mission that art is for everyone and the power of art to address contemporary challenges, no matter how complicated the issue. The exhibition is organized by The Mint Museum’s chief curator and curator of contemporary art Jen Sudul Edwards, Ph.D.
Commissioned Artists
The Mint is commissioning three installations of original works by North Carolina artists Amy Bagwell (Charlotte), Stacy Lynn Waddell (Durham), and Antoine Williams (Greensboro). Begun in May at the height of the pandemic’s uncertainty, the works document the changing concerns dialogues, and emotions arising from COVID-10 to the Black Lives Matter outcry and all of the ancillary considerations that those core events spurred over the spring, summer, and fall of 2020.
Additional Artists
As the Boundary Pulls Us Apart
Pandemic Comics
Diary of a Pandemic
Created by JW 12/9/20