Flags of Resilience | form & concept gallery

form & concept and Zane Bennett Contemporary Art are proud to present 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 artist design, printed on limited edition 3 x 5-foot flags, addresses topics 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 project, founded by form & concept represented artist Thais Mather in response to the global pandemic, will also address the nation’s longstanding struggles with systemic racism and police brutality, including the tragic deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, among others. The artists chosen for this project will lead the dialog on these subjects, presenting stories and aesthetics drawn from their far-flung communities.

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May Edition
Zac Scheinbaum

Flags of Resilience continues with a new edition by Santa Fe artist and tattooer Zac Scheinbaum, who chose the Immigrant History Inititative as his cause of choice.

For the artist's flag design, Scheinbaum chose a fitting image for the tragic yet hopeful era in which we live. The flag art, which straddles his love of ink and death imagery also touches on the human experience, and how death and life often come hand in hand.

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Artist Interview

"Birth always comes with death, and you can never have one without the other. Everything is moving into its next phase at all times. So this was a way to capture a simple moment of that coin toss."
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Immigrant History Initiative

Zac Scheinbaum chose the Immigrant History Initiative as the benefactor of his flag sales. "My grandparents were immigrants from Europe, and the story of immigration and the experiences of restarting in a new place and carrying that culture with you have always been important to me....So the idea of teaching and expanding educational resources for the greater good and equality of all immigrant groups and anti-racist recourses strikes deeply in my beliefs as an artist and as a person."
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February Edition
Yatika Starr Fields

form & concept and Zane Bennett Contemporary Art are proud to share the fourth edition of Flags of Resilience, featuring a new design by Tulsa-based Native artist Yatika Starr Fields, and will benefit the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC).

For his flag design, Fields reinvents and imagines his home state’s 1925 flag depiction of the Osage Nation shield, with a special emphasis on Native rights and inclusivity. “As an Osage artist,” Fields says, “I wanted to have agency over this shield.... Flags decide identity, they come and go just as the fragility of our lands and lives. I think it’s necessary to revisit each state flag and discuss its meanings.”

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Artist Statement

“As we move forward in 2021, I want this country to be mindful, to be held accountable for the past and be receptive to the changes that are needed. That is, to be inclusive of all people, backgrounds and genders....This Flag is for all; it’s meant to protect all under the sanctity of the shield and the duties that are within the warrior’s codes.”
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National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center

Yatika Fields has chosen the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center as benefactor of all proceeds from sales of his original flags. NIWRC is a Native-led nonprofit organization dedicated to ending violence against Native women and children. "I feel like this organization always needs help," says Fields, "and as a man and Native man using a warrior shield in the imagery, it's only right that it goes to protect the Native women and children of the Native tribes in the U.S."
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November Edition
Erin Currier

The series of original flag artworks continues with a new design by Santa Fe-based artist Erin Currier, and will benefit the ACLU of New Mexico. For her design, Currier offered her 2019 painting Salvavidas: Incarcerated Firefighters of Malibu (after Delacroix). She reimagines Delacroix's iconic Liberty Leading the People, incorporating her own experience with the devastating 2018 Woolsey Fire by recasting Parisian revolutionaries as women firefighters. Currier writes, “The piece highlights the inherent dignity of women laborers and incarcerated women the world over, who are all too often disparaged and overlooked.”

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Artist Interview

"This is what gives me hope: that Americans are complex and myriad. [...] It is more critical than ever that we each strive to open our minds and our hearts."
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August Edition
Flags of Resilience, August Edition by Tamara Santibañez

Tamara Santibañez

The second edition of Flags of Resilience features a design by Brooklyn-based artist Tamara Santibañez, benefiting F2L: Relief Fund. For her piece, Santibañez drew inspiration from the aesthetic of Talavera pottery.

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Photograph by Carlos Jaramillo for Revolver Magazine.

Artist Interview

"In this moment of political uprising, we are urgently being asked to consider what a future looks like. Conceiving of a future reminds us of our contemporary, moment-to-moment responsibility in moving towards it."
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July Edition
Flags of Resilience, July Edition by Pedro Barrios & Jaime Molina

Pedro Barrios & Jaime Molina

Flags of Resilience launches with a joint design by acclaimed Denver-based muralists Pedro Barrios and Jaime Molina (aka The Worst Crew), benefiting the Denver branch of the International Rescue Committee.

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Artist Interview

"The shutdown exposed many things that have been broken and ignored in our society. Our original concept came from this opportunity of regrowth. It was in many ways like the replanting of a garden that had become overwrought with weeds and choking vines. When you get the opportunity to start over, what kinds of seeds would you plant?
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International Rescue Committee

Barrios and Molina have chosen nonprofit International Rescue Committee as the benefactor of proceeds from the sale of their commissioned flags. “The charity we are choosing to support is the International Rescue Committee. This organization is special to us specifically because of the work they do to help refugees and immigrants. This hits close to home with Pedro since he immigrated from Venezuela to the US in Miami, FL with his family when he was young.”
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