Flags of Resilience, November Edition

form & concept and Zane Bennett Contemporary Art are proud to announce the latest edition of Flags of Resilience, a long-term, artist-run project featuring commissioned work by local and internationally-known artists in response to their unique and communal experiences amid global upheaval. Each flag design, printed on limited edition 3 x 5-foot flags, addresses global themes of isolation, community, family, fear and hope in this remarkable moment in time. All proceeds from the sale of each flag go to the charity of the artist’s choosing. The series of original flag artworks continues with a new design by Santa Fe-based artist Erin Currier, and will benefit theAmerican Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico.

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For her flag design, Currier, who has long championed the artistic spirit of the 1930s WPA movement in her dedication to highlighting historically under-represented minorities and unknown figures in blazingly charged portraits, chose to feature her 2019 painting Salvavidas: Incarcerated Firefighters of Malibu (after Delacroix). In her reworking of the French artist’s Liberty Leading the People, Currier has fused her own experience with the devastating 2018 Woolsey Fire through the re-imagining of Marianne and her Parisian revolutionaries as women firefighters. She writes, “The piece highlights the inherent dignity of women laborers and incarcerated women the world over, who are all too often disparaged and overlooked.” This 2020 flag release also coincides with the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting women’s constitutional right to vote.