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Chronically Online

Chronically Online Gallery

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CW: Work discusses euthanasia, suicidal ideation, ableism, violence

Current Show

Current Show

Belonging

May 7 2022

We are excited to​ present Belonging in collaboration with Cultur·Able and The Layered Onion.

 

When we placed a call for art asking for responses to the creation and categorization of community we were surprised to see the vast majority of our submissions be extremely personal and intimate storylines. This perhaps speaks to the isolating nature of existence as a disabled, mad, or chronically ill individual within the current medical-industrial complex. We believe that it speaks to how powerfully community, belonging, or lack thereof can impact our relationship with ourselves. 

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Included Artists

 

alphabetical by surname.

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Leila Bakouche

Romina Belda

Maggie Bowyer 

Jordan Burchill 

Savannah Calhoun 

Malgorzata Dawidek 

Peter Devonald 

Bethany Grabert 

Kailum Graves 

Lingxue Hao 

Helen Hazelmare 

Grant Lambie

Yasmine Martinez

Saxon Martinez

Monica Martinez

Campbell McLean

Mouli Paul

Elizabeth Stephens

Gabriel Torres

Selina Wagner

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Art and Image Descriptions

Data Rock (Take Me Somewhere Nice) is a series of abstract landscapes created by sequentially copying the colour of every pixel in six 100px x 100px images and pasting it successively to create entirely new images from the sampled pixels. Interestingly, each sampled pixel is already a sample of an original image. However, as numerous theorists have pointed out, the fictions of original and copy are so entwined that it is impossible to say where one begins and the other ends. Pixels interest me because they are the smallest controllable element of a picture. Moreover, the aesthetics of copy and paste—which is nothing more than the transfer of data—is, to me, the epitome of the transformative philosophy of sampling, and is the perfect response to the bombardment of media imagery. I believe that everyone should be able to create art, and thus meaning, out of the cultural materials of the everyday.

Title: Data Rock

(Take Me Somewhere Nice)

Artist: Kalium Graves 

Image Description:

Gif of a person wearing red lipstick, pearls, and a large ring. The images are taken so that the upper part of the person’s face is not visible. Blonde hair frames the images. This series of images was made with photographer Ernesto Linnemann about the artist's process of rediscovering gender after having a substance use disorder and coming back into therapy.

Title: Chiqui and her pretty fingers

Artist: Gabriel Torres

Image Description:

Visual poem reading “The past Never ceases or bends Or ends. The past is just there Crushing our ambition and dreams and laughing at us. Our hopes and expectations and future plans Mean nothing. The past never stops. The past never allows. The Past just is. Intransigent and unmoving and unblinking in its certainty. But there is a way out. I promise you. Heal Kiss Safe Live Love Hope Kind Grow Care”

Title: The Ugly Beautiful Now

Artist: Peter Devonald

Image Description:

Graphite, charcoal, and gesso on canvas (120 in x 108 in). Managers, Exiles, and Firefighters is an autobiographical drawing that investigates my own feelings of internal confusion, anxiety, and dissociation. Managers, Exiles, and Firefighters present multiple renderings of different parts of myself drawn on the canvas. They are characters I identified while undergoing therapy to treat Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Title: Untitled Crowded

Artist: Selina Wagner

Image Description:

An envelope reading “There is nowhere else to go except inside yourself” in the upper left-hand corner. “and that's the worst place to get lost” is written in the lower right-hand corner. The work relates to the internal turmoil felt battling with the wants and needs of depression, an ED, and BPD.

Title: Inside Yourself

Artist: Yasmine Martinez

Image Description:

From Lockdown Diaries (series, 2020) Black and white photo of a back. Analogue digitazed 120mm medium format

Title: From Lockdown Diaries (series, 2020)

Artist: Romina Belda

Image Description:

Charcoal, ink, graphite, and my hair on canvas (120 in x 60 in). Process of Becoming explores duality within the self – the idea that there are multiple selves within each person that all work in tandem to keep the whole safe. I’m curious about how the external body can be used to describe these internal feelings of conflict and mediation between different parts of the self. This piece is a byproduct of my practice of relinquishing absolute control over my work. It's caked with the material - ink, charcoal, gesso, graphite, and frizzy strands of my own hair that I found on my studio floor.

Title: Process of Becoming

Artist: Selina Wagner

Image Description:

SaxonMartinez_Its-Always-Been-About-Color_Black shapes on a white concrete floor. Formular, spray-paint sizes vary, 2019

Title: It's Always Been About Color

Artist: Saxon Martinez

Image Description:

A person wearing a red shirt sits in a white bathtub. The wall behind them is red. Their head is heavily bowed and completely invisible. 2016-present. A series of photographs of performative activities carried out at the borders of art and medical investigation.

Title: Self Soothing Project, 2018

Artist: Malgorzata Dawidek

Image Description:

Aktion T4. (Euthanasia programme from 1939- 1945 of people with learning disabilities and mental health issues, Germany) 2020 A beige map with a black embroidered borderline and square red markers. This is part of an ongoing investigation into the processes of maps and mapping.

Title: Aktion T4. (Euthanasia programme from 1939- 1945 of people with learning disabilities and mental health issues, Germany) 2020

Artist: Grant Lambie

Image Description:

A photographic diptych of an x-ray of a spine and a classical sculpture. The work shows an invisible but brutally painful and isolating disability (or at least in my case). My scoliosis is to everybody around me; my family and friends see me and can not notice my crooked back, and the scoliosis community thinks I'm exaggerating my pain because it is not visible at first sight. Only X-rays can show a glimpse of the pain. I fit nowhere with this invisible agony.

Title: So Heavy

Artist: Monica Martinez

Image Description:

A photographic diptych of an x-ray of a spine and a classical sculpture. The work shows an invisible but brutally painful and isolating disability (or at least in my case). My scoliosis is to everybody around me; my family and friends see me and can not notice my crooked back, and the scoliosis community thinks I'm exaggerating my pain because it is not visible at first sight. Only X-rays can show a glimpse of the pain. I fit nowhere with this invisible agony.

Title: Saree - A Memoir

Artist: Mouli Paul

Image Description:

A photographic diptych of an x-ray of a spine and a classical sculpture. The work shows an invisible but brutally painful and isolating disability (or at least in my case). My scoliosis is to everybody around me; my family and friends see me and can not notice my crooked back, and the scoliosis community thinks I'm exaggerating my pain because it is not visible at first sight. Only X-rays can show a glimpse of the pain. I fit nowhere with this invisible agony.

Title: Baking Because

Artist: Helen Hazelmare

Image Description:

Self-Portrait plaster bust, with eyes closed and a slight smile, with wire in the shape of butterflies coming out of the hollowed head.

Title: Romans 12:2

Artist: Elizabeth Stephens

Image Description:

A person laying on the sand, water pooling around them. They are wearing a black dress and have their head turned to the side. Digital Capture, 10/2018, Savannah, GA

Title: On The Beach

Artist: Lingxue Hao

Image Description:

(Lost Control, Back) A yellow and white sculpture sitting on a stool reaching to the right of the frame where the sculptures yellow hands multiply. stool, aqua resin, steel

Title: Lost Control

Artist: Bethany Grabert

Image Description:

Title: Hands

Artist: Savannah Calhoun

Image Description:

(Digital Collage) Hands repeat in a diagonal line from the upper left corner to the bottom right over a backdrop of a blue sky with clouds. An eaten apple sits atop a grocery store ad on the bottom left corner.
Two figures holding a gun and a cat. Oil on canvas 46x36 hardwood frame

Title: On the Business End of our Pig

Artist: Campbell McLean

Image Description:

Title: Bottom of the Shower

Artist: Bethany Grabert

Image Description:

(Bottom of the Shower) A blue and white sculpture in a bathtub holds itself and the edge of a bathtub. A disembodied arm of another white sculpture caresses the blue and white sculpture’s hand. Iron bathtub, aqua resin, steel 62 x 44 x 49 Inches
The back of a person's head. The person is wearing a blue costume «Shanghai», and facing a blue-grey wall. I love to follow the flow, as soon as an opportunity arises to move, I dance to the trance. Moving my body is like moving my soul. I want to be the movement, literally and figuratively.

Title: Flow

Artist: Leila Bakouche

Image Description:

This self-portrait of myself reading The Bell Jar with Sylvia Plath in the tub with me is an exploration between a mentally ill viewer/reader relating to famous mentally ill artists/writers in an attempt to cope and find themselves. While I am dressed up as Plath, my appearance is also digitally manipulated to look more like her. As a woman with bipolar disorder, I mainly deal with depression and have spent years of my life being suicidal. I have often searched for others' art and writing to validate my pain like many others suffering mentally. I have reminded myself that viscerally resonating with an artist's story doesn't mean their tragedies become your own. The prose I wrote to accompany this piece is based on an experience I had while reading The Bell Jar years ago while tying in Plath's biography

Title: The Bell Jar, Self-Portrait, Diptych, 2022

Artist: Jordan Burchill

Image Description:

Title: Agony

Artist: Bethany Grabert

Image Description:

(Agony) Sculpture of a figure sitting holding knees. Their faces twist in agony.

Title: Invisible Illness

Artist: Maggie Bowyer

Image Description:

Invisible Illness Poem reading “Invisible Illness The welts across my back, My shoulders, bruises Make it obvious I am a fall risk. Cords tangle themselves In my pants, beneath My cane, I am afraid The batteries keeping me Going are fading. Caked on the makeup, Wore ill-disguised loungewear, TENs set to ten, just for you to Begin, you look like you are doing so much better.”
Legs wearing white socks kneel on a red rug in a white room, while the rest of the one's body lying on a bed is hidden under a white cover. 2016-present. A series of photographs of performative activities carried out at the borders of art and medical investigation.

Title: Self Soothing Project, 2019

Artist: Malgorzata Dawidek

Image Description:

That Will Be $50 (Wasted) poem reading “That Will Be $50 (Wasted) So you're here for intractable Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, And constipation? She asked, her voice Forced with concern, Her skepticism thinly veiled. She didn't have me remove My pants so she didn't see The brown blossoms, burns From all the days I have laid Directly on my heating pad. She began to probe my abdomen Almost as forcefully as her tone; I groaned in discontentment. She pressed harder into my center; A single shriek escaped my soul. A third thrust and I couldn't control The feral wail that came tumbling out. I'm sorry. It's okay, she said, like she accepted An apology I never should have given. So we will refill your meds And see you in 6 months”

Title: That Will Be $50 (Wasted)

Artist: Maggie Bowyer

Image Description:

Two pink figures with halos stand over a third pink figure. Tissue paper and cardboard, 4.5’x3’, 2021

Title: Oyes

Artist: Saxon Martinez

Image Description:

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