Helen @ 90! Virtual Gallery Opening
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What began as a collaboration with the fabric artist Juliet Romais in mid-March resulted in four quilts, documenting the early outbreak of the coronavirus. The first one depicted the virus and people falling out of life, the second shows a figure based on Boccaccio’s “The Decameron” echoing the plague over New York City. The third one is a more humorous riff on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel, the hand of God giving Adam a mask. The last one, in more typical Helen style, was entitled “Six Feet” visualizing the mandate of social distancing with tape measures.
New York at 7
This led to a series of seven remarkable paintings in which Helen Frank captured the pot banging and music playing ritual that happens every evening at 7 p.m. across New York City. She depicted people leaning out the windows of the Flatiron building and fancifully playing music from the gargoyles of the Chrysler building. Posters of these two images are being sold with all proceeds going to local Covid 19 relief.
These first two were the result of her artistic imagination, the later series of families and neighbors on the stoops of their brownstones in Brooklyn, came from actual photos taken by her cousin who lives on Saint Marks Avenue. With a connection in both her own family and in her community to many nurses and frontline medical workers, the emotion behind this outpouring of gratitude is clearly visible.
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