Image credit: (from left to right) Renee Rey, 22 Ti Transmutation (detail), 2020, Oil, graphite, sand paper on canvas, 48 x 30"; Heather Couch, Demosthenes (detail), 2019, Wood, stoneware, raw wool and twine, 96 x 48 x52”; Marina Font, Untitled (detail), 2019, Archival pigment print on canvas, gesso, found textiles and thread, 84 x 56”; Terre Rybovich, Gadget & Other Mementos (detail), 2019, Pastel & charcoal on paper, 66 x 50” framed.
As a theme, “the body, fragility and time,” when proposed in October of 2019, was inspiring—even novel—for the four artists in this exhibition. One bewildering year later it feels prophetic. Not to mention universal. Too soon to be a response to Covid-19, the show is instead a record of enduring a pandemic by women artists who engage their bodies in their art. In When We See Further, the Wasmer Gallery at Florida Gulf Coast University presents these noted South Florida creatives in conversation. They and curator John Loscuito worked collaboratively to create a physical and virtual exhibition both timely and inspired, complete with dance performance.