Making Work Visible

This work called Nurses at Central Park Field Hospital (2021) is oil on canvas. The dimensions are 79 in x 49 in. It shows three nurses, one doctor, and one patient. Needless to say, in the once-in-a-century pandemic from the beginning of 2020, the medical professionals worked hard. In New York, from March to April, serious new cases occurred every day. Doctors and nurses were busy at each hospital. The number of beds in the hospital was insufficient, so a field hospital of tents was built in Central Park. People who couldn’t fit in the hospital were treated there.

Nurses at Central Park Field Hospital (2021) inherits the spirit of labor art by depicting the hard work of medical professionals. This work is realistic and reveals the valuableness of medical labor with the power of painting, an artistic tradition. Especially in this catastrophic infectious disease epidemic, they bet their lives in desperate times and continued to work day and night to save the lives of others. I thank them for giving great courage to many citizens.