CHARLOTTE LOWRY COLLINS Artist Charlotte Lowry Collins shared the following regarding her participation in the upcoming show where she will debut Sims’ Grace: Voice of Reason. “The effects of COVID ran amuck in human society. We read with surprise about the implications for our health, our economy, and our mental stability. But what has had little to no coverage is the effects Covid wreaked on artists, on creativity and on the artwork we produced during COVID. Reinvention has given me, and my fellow artists, a chance to expose the aftereffects that the pandemic had on our work.”

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“Sims’ Grace: Voice of Reason requires that the viewer not try to understand my specific meaning, but rather to spend a full thirty seconds looking at colors and shapes, much like you may listen to instrumental music without trying to decipher a scene. The voice rises above the surrounding stress. Carlos’ Patience: Pursuit of Happiness is another work in which pure color and forms convey an intuitive emotion. The bursts of warmth stand out in intermittent contrast to the cool environment.”