Join us Sunday, March 13, 2022, @ 4:00 PM to celebrate the opening of "Drawing Covid: A Story, Two Years and Counting."
“Drawing Covid: A Story, Two Years and Counting" is a collaborative installation of drawings archiving the Pandemic. It is a time capsule of our shared collective trauma from March 2020 to March 2022. With more than 40-line drawings in pen and ink, Hudson Valley artist and SUNY art professor, Sean Nixon, has spent the past two years illustrating not only the ongoing saga of the pandemic but also some of the startling now-historic events that we witnessed during lockdown and beyond: The Presidential Election; George Floyd’s murder; BLM activism; the Insurrection; the fight for abortion rights, a world of grief, born of hope.
This exhibition invites audiences to collaborate with Sean by adding their own responses, their line drawings, doodles, poems, their stories of their experiences of the past years. These response drawings will be installed and exhibited along with Sean’s work, a set of courageous, cathartic responses to our difficult and, yes, extraordinary time together.
About Sean Nixon
Sean's work aims to insert playfulness into the seriousness of life. Using simple drawings from an ironic perspective, he uses an economy of line to convey large ideas. Sometimes described as "New Yorker Cartoons without the need for captions," Sean first started illustrating the world around him at age 19 when he began a series of illustrations of Manhattan Jazz musicians drawn on bar napkins. Sean is a Professor of Art. He has a BFA from the Philadelphia College of Arts (UArts)and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts (SVA)
In March of 2020, as a reaction to the sudden shift in the world's prospects, Sean began furiously drawing. His first drawing in this series was of a blindfolded person attempting to move forward into the void of the unknown. He invites collaborators into his work in order to see the world in its richness, its glory.
Follow him on Instagram @SeanNixonDraws and join his newsletter at www.SeanNixon.com.
Unison's programming is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
