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@ Work, an exhibition of the work of artist Zoe Beloff and filmmaker Eric Muzzy, was installed at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Together Beloff and Muzzy have created @Work, an exuberant documentary public art installation that includes fourteen life-size canvas banners depicting images in oil of essential workers who were so vital to the survival of the city and all of us during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Each banner is over seven feet in height, five feet across, and features brightly colored, playful, realistic, and symbolic representations of fourteen essential working people of New York City. They range from a cashier at a grocery store to a dock worker to a ferry operator to a teacher to a respiratory therapist. The portraits speak to a long tradition of the representation of workers in mural form. Warm, human, wry, alive, and yet iconic, idealized and lifted up as examples of how work, when it does not oppress, brings dignity and equality.