Created June 16, 2020

Day 97 - As Los Angeles burns outside in the riots, I attempted to illustrate the madness that got society to where we find ourselves: the indifference of privilege. Karen is surely the one new term coined during 2020.

From exhibition America Disrupted, featuring a series of watercolors painted during the Covid-19 quarantine. At once a record of the artist’s emotional response to our current era, it is also a time Jay Samit found himself conflicted about his nation’s history. Part therapeutic, part social commentary, Samit’s palette reveals the fissures in American society further exposed by this unsettling period.