In response to the COVID-19 crisis and public restrictions, Shoebox PR has created a project for artists to collaborate from a distance. One-hundred artists participated in the first installment of the project. Artists were paired randomly.
ROUND 7:
Paired with artist Denise Fontaine-Pincince, Belchertown, MA
- Denise Fontaine-Pincince
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Denise Fontaine-Pincince
- Kayla L. Cloonan
Denise Fontaine-Pincince, Something New, mixed media
Kayla Cloonan, “Nest”
- Denise Fontaine-Pincince
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Denise Fontaine-Pincince
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Denise Fontaine-Pincince
- Kayla L. Cloonan
ROUND 6:
Paired with artist Stacie B. Greene, San Diego, CA
- Stacie B. Greene
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Stacie B. Greene
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Stacie B. Greene
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Stacie B. Greene
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Stacie B. Greene
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Stacie B. Greene
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Stacie B. Greene
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Stacie B. Greene
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Stacie B. Greene
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Stacie B. Greene
- Kayla L. Cloonan
View the full exhibition for ROUND 6:
ROUND 5:
Paired with artist Michelle Lopate, Hollywood, FL.
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Michelle Lopate
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Michelle Lopate
- Michelle Lopate
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Michelle Lopate
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Michelle Lopate
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Michelle Lopate
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Michelle Lopate
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Michelle Lopate
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Michelle Lopate
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Michelle Lopate
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Michelle Lopate
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Michelle Lopate
View the full exhibition for ROUND 5:
ROUND 4:
Paired with artist Ashley L. Gnar, Southern California
- Kayla L. Cloonan
- Ashley L. Gnar
After no response for days, I decided to create the following collages:
Kayla Cloonan, “Waiting for a Response 1-3”, digital collages
Another few days past, still no response:
Kayla Cloonan, “Still Waiting”, digital collage
Still no response. The round ended with just me.
ROUND 3:
Paired with artist Anne M. Bray in Los Angeles.
Call & Response #1
- AB “Untitled #1”
- KC “The Barriers were there and Now they’re Gone #1”
- KC “The Barriers were there and Now they’re Gone #2”
- KC “The Barriers were there and Now they’re Gone #3”
- KC “The Barriers were there and Now they’re Gone #4”
Call & Response #2
- AB “Symbols REP”
- KC “Object Impermanence”
Call & Response #3
Anne M. Bray, WORK IN PROGRESS
Kayla Cloonan, “History of Yarn”, 13 yarns, 2 days, hand wound spool
Call & Response #4
Anne M. Bray, Untitled, hand rolled yarn from leftover thread and embroidery floss
Kayla Cloonan, “Align”, “Misalign”, “Missing”, digital photographs
Call & Response #5
Anne M. Bray, “JARS”, digital photography collage
Kayla Cloonan, “Syntax: A Conceptual Experiment of Receptacles”
photographs of thesaurus pages
audio of tonal poem
marker drawings on grid paper
Call & Response #6
Anne M. Bray, “Untitled”, fabric weaving with bobby pins
Kayla Cloonan, “An Act of Failed Preservation 1-4″, safety pinned plaster casts nailed to wood panel
Call & Response #7
- AB “Safety and Repair”
- KC “You Saved Me from Myself”
Call & Response #8
Anne M. Bray, “Nine Used Gloves from the Floor of My Car”
Kayla Cloonan, “Feel Free to Take the Flowers”, installation; fabric flowers on astroturf
Call & Response #9
- AB “Triangle of Spider Plants”
- AB “Triangle of Spider Plants”
- KC “Scrap Pile”
Call & Response #10
Anne M. Bray, “Roll Call”, installation
Kayla Cloonan, “A Monument to Emptiness”, installation
Call & Response #11
- AB “Paint Jar in Stitches”
- KC “Painting with Stitches”
- KC “Painting with Stitches”
- KC “Painting with Stitches”
Call & Response #12
- AB “Order”
- AB “Outtakes”
Kayla Cloonan “Outtakes from Going Blindly Into the Future”
Call & Response #13
Anne M. Bray, “Untitled”, fabric, thread, blue painters tape on cardboard
Kayla Cloonan, “Self Portrait with Drawing”, digital photography edited on iPhone
Call & Response #14
- AB “Untitled”
- KC “No Instructions were Included in the Bag”
View the full exhibition for ROUND 3:
ROUND 2:
Paired with artist Elizabeth Flinsch in Minnesota.
Call & Response #1
Kayla Cloonan, “I Won’t Slow Down”, digital collage
Elizabeth Flinsch, “Out of the Wind”, photo through ground glass with digital collage
Call & Response #2
- KC “Inside Looking Out”
- EF “Disposable”
Call & Response #3
Kayla Cloonan, “The Grid Can’t Contain Me”
Elizabeth Flinsch, “The River with You”
Transcription:
When we stood by the
river and cried together
I cast my eyes down-
ward. The silence shook
the trees and all I
could hear were the
small ripples of the
current dancing
Call & Response #4
- KC “You with the River”
- KC “You with the River”
- KC “You with the River”
- KC “You with the River”
- EF “Me and Emmett Window in Between”
Call & Response #5
- KC “Through the Window”
- EF “Dad at a Distance”
Call & Response #6
- KC “Portal 1”
- KC “Portal 2”
- EF “River Leaves Boiled”
- EF “River Leaves Boiled”
- EF “River Leaves Boiled”
Call & Response #7
- KC “Mapping the Eye”
- EF “WIP Mourning Dove”
Call & Response #8
Kayla Cloonan, Documented Stills from “A Softer World: A Performance to Noone”
Elizabeth Flinsch, “Creek Performance”
Call & Response #9
- KC “The Rocks Remain Unmoved #1”
- KC “The Rocks Remain Unmoved #2”
- KC “The Rocks Remain Unmoved #3”
- EF “The Bark the River Tore Away”
- EF “The Bark the River Tore Away”
- EF “The Bark the River Tore Away”
View the full exhibition for ROUND 2:
ROUND 1:
Paired with artist Misty Mawn in Virginia. This was our artistic journey:
Call & Response #1
- KC “What Do We Do Now #1”
- KC “What Do We Do Now #2”
- MM “cry for help”
Call & Response #2
- KC “Voicemail Box is Full”
- KC “I Think We Got Disconnected”
- MM “talking to myself”
Call & Response #3
- KC “I Wrote You a Letter and it Became a Book”
- KC “I Ran Out of Stamps”
- MM “based on a true story”
Call & Response #4
Kayla Cloonan, “COPY + PASTE”, digital flipbook
Misty Mawn, “sometimes it’s hard to see”, mixed media on paper “11 x 14”
Call & Response #5
- KC “There Was a Fire in the Snow #1”
- KC “There Was a Fire in the Snow #2”
- MM “Burning Heart of Pizza”
Call & Response #6
- KC “Divided 1”
- KC “Divided 2”
- KC “Divided 3”
- KC “Divided 4”
- MM “self portrait: I sleep knowing”
- MM “self portrait: draw the line”
Call & Response #7
Kayla Cloonan, “The Mind Fights Confinement”
Misty Mawn, “i know karate”
Call & Response #8
Kayla Cloonan, “Just You Wait”, digital collage
Misty Mawn, “lost in a forest all alone”, digital collage
View the full exhibition for ROUND 1: