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The year 2020 has pushed many people apart and tested our resolve. But it also stretched our imaginations and made us dig deeper. For artists it meant fewer opportunities to share their work, but perhaps more time in the studio to work through ideas or simply follow a loose thread. In a sense, quarantine stopped time – but it couldn’t keep our creative minds from racing.

In response to the global health crisis, political unrest, climate disasters and all the rest, artists broke out their tools and invented new ones. These topics became fuel for exploration and many artists took on the challenge of making their creative practice into a relevant reaction.

Wild Tangents is a bi-coastal exhibition curated by Caetlynn Booth (New York) and Ann Trinca (San Francisco) that looks at recent work from artists who have tuned into inspiration from unexpected places. A “wild tangent” can be a mere distraction, or a journey from which you never return. The artists in this exhibition have reached into a swirling hive of current events and wrestled with unprecedented concepts. The exhibition will appear online on the curators’ websites. In addition, the East Coast show will be on view by appointment at the gallery at Reservoir Studios (659 Woodward Av, Ridgewood, NY).

West Coast Artists
Nicole Irene Anderson
Lynn Beldner
Joy Broom
Monica Bryant
Arminée Chahbazian
Laura Corallo-Titus
Deborah Hamon
Nicole Katano
Kim Ford Kitz
Carrie Lederer
Esther Traugot
Martin Webb
Nancy Willis