How We Live: Part II

How We Live Part II

A Rolling Exhibition

In “How We Live, Part II” we have retained most of the original sculptures from “How We Live” since, due to the pandemic, the works had very short physical access. To these works we have added paintings, tapestry and other two dimension constructs, to expand on the discourse. “How We Live: Part II” offers, for this moment in history, on-line access to an expanded “How We Live” exhibition, taking stock of how the narratives incorporated into artists’ works bespeak universal fears, concerns, and celebrations of who we are as human beings, as Americans, as part of a global community.

The year 2020-2021 has been a trying one. The COVID19 pandemic has, of this moment, caused the death of over 2.5 million people and climbing, including over half a million Americans. In the midst of this disaster the US has faced election dissention, turmoil and violence that reached to the very core of our republic, to the Congress of the United States, and it is not over. So, in expanding the exhibition ‘How We Live: Part II’ to include two-dimensional works, we looked to responses from the global art community. What in our archives has had lasting meaning; what still addresses the reality, the paranoia and the fears of today?