“There is another world, but it is in this one,” said Surrealist poet Paul Éluard. In this exhibition, artists look to the future, imagining how we move forward from the tumultuous events of the past year. [read more]
Art in the Plague Year is an online exhibition organized by UCR ARTS: California Museum of Photography and curated by Douglas McCulloh, Nikolay Maslov, and Rita Sobreiro Souther. UCR ARTS’s programs are supported by UCR College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, the City of Riverside, Altura Credit Union, and Anheuser-Busch.
All works in this exhibition are reproduced with permission of the artists/copyright holders. Works (images, video, audio or other content) must not be used or reproduced for any purposes other than fair use without prior consent of the artists.
(b. 1976, Redwood City, CA. Lives and works in New Rochelle, NY)
Buffalo Grid
Is man’s domination of the planet responsible for the pandemic? Does humankind’s trespass and pillage unleash unstoppable natural forces? Amy Regalia is not alone in asking these questions. They took on special urgency for her in quarantine in April 2020. “Stuck inside and wary of venturing out to shoot, I started to work on a series of images shot off my computer screen dealing with environmental destruction and a world out of balance. Buffalo Grid is a series of still photographs from a brief sequence in Ken Burns’s miniseries The West. It consists of six individual 14 x 10-inch images of buffalo running across the snowy plain. It depicts a time before the expansion of the railroad, and before these animals were hunted almost to extinction. It is a glimpse of what we could regain if we begin to heal the earth.”
