"LAZARETTO 5" by Rachel Gibson
rubber from innertubes, found objects,
stainless-steel pins & styrofoam 
$245

“For the majority of the world, the notion of quarantine was something apart from modern life until 2020.  Now that lockdown rules have been much loosened, how do we go back?  How many of us find ourselves in a self-imposed quarantine?  Have we developed a second skin?  Do we now have an armor, of sorts, to keep us in a self-imposed quarantine socially, emotionally, physically?   Lazaretto [laddzaˈretto] is a diminutive form of the Italian word for beggar (cf. lazzaro) and refers to a place of quarantine, in the case of maritime travelers, a ship set adrift. AND HERE WE ARE.

"These pieces are offered in honor of my dear friend Kim Lemasters who taught me how to keep going no matter what.  He left this world far too early, and I miss him every day of my life." --R.L. Gibson

RACHEL GIBSON works as a mixed media artist with work in galleries from New York to Los Angeles and collections around the world. A happily-married, mother of one, Gibson lives & works in Marion, Virginia in the southeast United States.  Her practice currently explores work that overlays watercolor with embroidery.  The hand-stitched component of this work lends movement to otherwise still media while paying homage to the band of quilting women she calls family.

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