Arts + Literature Laboratory presents "Paper Play" Art in COVID, an exhibition by Gregg Williard, from Tuesday, March 19, 2024 through Friday, June 7, 2024. The exhibition has been extended and will be on display in the third floor project space when our galleries re-open on Tuesday, April 30.
"Paper Play" Art in Covid comprises a group of small framed drawings (8"x11" to 11"x14") made between 2020 and early 2023. The drawings use symbolic or expressionist strategies to respond to the felt experience of the pandemic, abjuring spectacle or abstraction.
Many of us are struggling with the aftermath of the COVID emergency. These drawings, like my experience of the time, seem too fast or too slow or too small or too slant for message, analysis, reportage or spectacle. They present instead a miniature theater that haunts a paper stage, resistant to closure or cliché.
