This first edition of The Quarantine Diaries profiles five Baltimore-based visual artists who have had solo exhibitions postponed or altered because of Covid-19 social distancing and stay-in-place orders.
After curating ANOTHER COUNTRY, an exhibition that opened on March 13 at Terrault Contemporary, I have been reflecting on all the exhibits that are sitting unviewed in galleries—in Baltimore and beyond. I am also thinking about all the labor artists have put into spring and summer exhibitions that have been cancelled, so many beautiful works of art that will go unseen, now haunted relics of a not-so-distant past where art shows were accessible for in-person viewing and not via screen.
As a person who lives alone, I have been finding comfort in reading the accounts of other individuals across the country who have been isolated from their friends and family as they self-quarantine in their respective spaces. I reached out to a selection of Baltimore-based artists whose exhibits have been cancelled or unseen to ask how they have been coping with the loss, and was inspired by their thoughtful responses which allowed for intimacy across geographical boundaries.
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