ART FROM THE QUARANTINE

AFTQ was an art project that aimed to keep visual story-tellers creative and connected during their quarantines. As Covid-19 spread throughout our cities, we thought our isolations could become an opportunity to challenge one another to create images with what we had at our disposal.

During its final weeks, AFTQ featured the work of victims of another pandemic as well, and tried to lift the voices and art of our black and brown peers as the world was going through the largest civil rights movement in history, during the Black Lives Matter protests of the spring of 2020.

At the beginning of each week, a small group of photographers, stylists, and other visual artists, were given a loose brief to jump start their creativity. Each were asked to deliver between 1 and 9 final images at week’s end. Those images are now organized and shared here and on the AFTQ instagram.

This project ran for 10 weeks, from April 6th to June 14th 2020. Now, these galleries live on as a time capsule of the work produced during one of the moments of greatest uncertainty in our history, and how we, as artists, responded. AFTQ is 72 collections of artworks, by 45 different artists, organized into 10 galleries.

Enjoy looking through these collections.

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WEEKLY GALLERIES

(Click on any of the below to view)

WEEK ONE | MAGICALLY MUNDANE

FRANK FRANCES, ROSSCOLLAB, OLIVIA DEMETROS, JASON HAMILTON, ANGELA ROMERO PLACENCIA, PAULO PLACENCIA, ELVIS MAYNARD

WEEK TWO | PORTRAITS IN ISOLATION

PATRICK CHURCH, GIA WOODS, COLE WITTER, ANDREE LJUTICA, AARON WILLIAMS, JESUS AVALOS, FRANK FRANCES, JASON HAMILTON, ELVIS MAYNARD

WEEK THREE | STATE AND FORM

DYLAN CHANDLER, MARTHA BERNABE, GLEN PROEBSTEL, OLIVIA DEMETROS, COLIN KING, GAELLE JAUNAY-DESROCHES, ANGELA ROMERO PLACENCIA, PAULO PLACENCIA, FRANK FRANCES, ROBERTO RAFAEL NAVARRETE, ELVIS MAYNARD

WEEK FOUR | CONFINED BEAUTY

ROB WOODCOX, BRIAN BRIGANTTI, FRANK FRANCES, ANDREE LJUTICA, TREVOR HANSEN, RYAN GINTER, BERNARD BRIGIÈRE, PAULO PLACENCIA, ANGELA ROMERO PLACENCIA, ELVIS MAYNARD

WEEK FIVE | THE UNSEEN

CAROLINE RUFFAULT, CHAUNTÉ VAUGHN, RYAN BAKER, MARLÉNA PAVICH, JIMMY SKARBEK, OLIVIA DEMETROS, ROBERT FLYNT, SANDRA YAU, ANGELA ROMERO PLACENCIA, PAULO PLACENCIA, FRANK FRANCES, ELVIS MAYNARD

WEEK SIX | FLUX

ADDIE JUELL, JULIAN WASS, BRENDAN BARRY, GAËLLE JAUNAY-DESROCHES, JANE LOVE, JONATHAN BUMBLE, AHMAD NASER ELDEIN, RA DAHAN, FRANK FRANCES, ANGELA ROMERO PLACENCIA, PAULO PLACENCIA, ELVIS MAYNARD

WEEK SEVEN | MOMENTS IN-BETWEEN

MARY O’BRIEN SPURRIER, ANDREE LJUTICA, MARLÉNA PAVICH, FRANK FRANCES, ELVIS MAYNARD

WEEK EIGHT | ISOLATED COLLABORATIONS

LAURA ZALENGA, GEORGIA KOKOT, GAËLLE JAUNAY-DESROCHES, MARLÉNA PAVICH, FRANK FRANCES, ELVIS MAYNARD

WEEK NINE | SAY SOMETHING

LUKE GRAY, KENNETH A. MARSHALL, JAI LENNARD, FRANK FRANCES

WEEK TEN | INTO THE NEW NORMAL

SILVIA DI NATALE, FRANK FRANCES, AARON WILLIAMS, ELVIS MAYNARD