Student Voices from the Quarantine Exhibition
UNG Visual Arts students, like so many across our country, in March went from going to classes and meeting up with friends to being isolated in their apartments and homes in quarantine. Everyone processes sudden changes in their own way; however, artists have a special method for expressing themselves. They turn to creativity.
The UNG Art Galleries are excited to share our first online exhibition: Student Voices from the Quarantine. These works were all created by Department of Visual Arts students during this time of isolation; some used art to reflect their mood, others reflected on life outside of the quarantine. Each art work represents the wide range of reactions of these UNG students to this remarkable time.
Neona Brackett
Clay and mixed media


Magnum Brock
Mindchaser
Acrylic on Canvas
Paul Brock
Hope
Pencil, micron and watercolor on paper
Halle Castille
Pop Heart
Found objects
Angelica Cummings
Giant Bunny on a Magical Island
Mixed medium
I was inspired by my pet bunny, Cocoa, and my favorite genre, fantasy. He's sitting around a bunch of flowers in a forest of red and blue trees. It reminds me of Alice in Wonderland!
Natalie Davenport
Back to Nature
Ceramic Greenware
Back to nature is a group of three greenware wheel thrown pieces. It’s inspiration stems from Natalie’s time during quarantine during the Covid-19 outbreak. Natalie spent much of her outside studio time either in the kitchen, or out in nature, thus leading to her work back to nature. Due to lack of resources, pieces are neither bisque nor glaze fired.
Cassady Fulbright
Zoom
Acrylic on canvas
These are the my classmates in film photography. Through Zoom, you glimpse into your peer's worlds. We are all living our own little individual lives, surviving, doing what it takes to make it each day. Each screen is a portal into a different place with its own personal style. We are all so different, and live so differently. Our lives look a lot different than they did a month ago. Zoom is a place that brings us all together when we are really so far apart.
Katrina Henrickson
Finding Color in the Darkness
Oil on canvas
Donal Jolley
Covid
Acrylic
Jolley painted this as the weight of his own upended life was compounded by those of his wife, an RN in the Atlanta region, and his daughter and son-in-law, both ICU doctors in New York City. His daughter was diagnosed with Covid-19 but had to return to work in the second week of her illness due to the crushing patient load and lack of physicians in the hard-hit New York City hospital districts.
Joshua Loftin
Daybreak
Digital painting
This piece is about the wane of this whole pandemic. We are coming to exit of the forest as the sun begins to rise.
Lori Marshall
Youth of the Quarantine 2020
Charcoal on paper
This is my son playing the Nintendo Switch. While on quarantine, he prefers to immerse himself into video games which I'm sure a lot of the youth is concurrently doing. More than ever, I feel that we are all connected electronically through many platforms to stay engaged with one another. While he is immersed, I wanted the viewer to feel immersed as well.
Jonah McEver
Blindsided
Acrylic on canvas
In addition to attending UNG as a full-time art student, I also work full-time in the office of a grocery store. "Blindsided" is my interpretation of the current social dilemma of panic buying at grocery stores as well as the lengths at which some are going to avoid illness.
Melissa Poloncarz
6ft a-p-a-r-t
Digital photograph
This self-portrait represents all of the anxiety and questions that circled through my mind as I transitioned from an active life to my isolated online life. I became overwhelmed. I have learned it is okay to hit pause and reset.
Rebecca Sabaka
I have come so that they may have life
Acrylic on black matte canvas
COVID-19 took summer camp and being a fourth year counselor away from me. Even so, I can hold fast onto the fact that I am a daughter to a God that gives life over and over again. His promises don’t dissipate regardless of my circumstances. There is something greater than camp or my own plans that he hasn’t revealed yet. This painting is a permanent reminder of that truth.
Rachel Spangler
Beck
Mixed Media
Rebecca Swain
Weaving at Home
Assorted wool and cotton yarns



Mallie Sykes
Bonnaroo
2015/2020, Watercolor and xerox transfer
Kristina Thompson
The End of Us
Acrylic paint and mixed media
Charles Wharton
The Inflation Vortex
Designed in Tinkercard and 3-D printed
The Government’s $2Trillion+ gifts swirl about the Inflation Vortex as their purchasing value decays with the happy pork barrels in the background.
The dollars get smaller as time passes and disappear down the vortex of political self-centeredness, big government spending, and inflation.