People's Choice 1st Place Mood for Love - Spark Howard
People's Choice 2nd Place My America - Charles Bomar
People's Choice 3rd Place Beyond the Restraint - Craig Denesha
Jennifer Evins
The Art of Survival
Jennifer Evins, CEO Chapman Cultural Center, celebrates and honors the artists in the exhibit and talks about her experience of the Art of Survival exhibition, it's artwork, and her own experience with Covid and the lockdown.
This piece serves as a direct representation of the struggles personally faced this year. Isolation, sacrifice, physical trauma, and a struggle with faith.
For me, the pandemic and the lockdown is always connected to another event in Spartanburg that kind of resembles a start with a bang. Spartanburg was shook by a Tornado shortly before the closedowns started.
“Woman of Color” is a social criticism of the societal expectation for people of color to conform to white ideals. I created the piece after attending a Black Lives Matter protest.
They are based on sketches of the flowers and plants in my garden. Each image is reduced to simply shapes and forms that allows brush marks to create texture and complexity.
