This group show is a concerted effort  to artistically transform wooden shipping pallets from food relief boxes, left over in the Sun Arts space during the height of the pandemic. 

Sometimes it’s the artist’s task to find out what we can make with what’s left.

Our challenge has  been to push the local artists to reconsider the value of what’s literally been left to work with in this space and to collaboratively comment about what happened  during COVID through refuse pallet material. 

To go a step beyond our familiar creative mediums and simply comment on the sickness and loss of loved ones in our community, we wanted to infuse the actual material and vestiges of that relief effort into this work to send a louder message…to bring awareness to our neighbors that help was here and we plan to be here in the future for many  reasons for community, helping, healing and  celebration. 

After a long arduous year of quarantine the resident and other local artists have come here wanting to  make something unique and relative to the issue of this space being a conduit for relief.   

Adapting to Using the aforementioned wooden pallet material they have incorporated the vestiges of that ephemeral process through their  own. 

With gratitude we thank everyone who was involved on any level of service directly /indirectly on an administrative labor or creatively.  We hope that  this show will inspire us all  to remain hopeful in times of crisis and see that in the end inspiration can be found with working with what we have and what has been left behind. That’s how we can move forward.

Artists:

Keli Lucas

Justin Muñoz

Carlos Torres Machado

Jonas Brewer

David Salinas

Genna Howard