BROADSIDES: Pandemic Elegy

Mock-up showing the final layout of imagery on the driver side of the Axle Contemporary Mobile Artspace. 2020. Photoshop image by Derek Irland.

This series of paintings, Pandemic Elegy, was enlarged and wheat-pasted onto the exterior of Axel Contemporary, a mobile gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Due to Covid restrictions visitors were not allowed to enter the inside of the gallery, so the van was parked at various places around town where the art could be seen by pedestrians or those driving by in their cars.

Finished van on exhibit in the Railyard Arts District of Santa Fe, NM.

Passenger side of the Mobile Artspace. Photo by Axle Contemporary.

Detail of imagery on the front hood.

"To honor those who have died from COVID-19."