“This week’s arts options continue to proliferate, mostly within the parameters of Safer at Home, with a couple of fresh new additions to the growing ‘from your vehicle or on the sidewalk’ sector…

Open Mind Art Space in collaboration with JAUS, opens Rona v Amabie, a storefront window exhibition featuring new work by Los Angeles-based artists Aska Irie and Tomoaki Shibata. The galleries had already planned to exhibit a collaborative project by Irie and Shibata this month, which has subsequently been reimagined as a window exhibition viewable from the street, and from within the context of the pandemic. Irie’s striking Virus sculptures were created last year as “a discourse on how misinformation spreads like a virus,” but they have since clearly taken on a whole new meaning. Shibata’s colorful mixed media works are abstract portraits of Amabie, a mythical Japanese spirit/creature who is believed to have the power to cure plagues. Shibata started creating these works in response to the current social media #amabiechallenge, prompting illustrators to draw Amabie in an energetic but esoteric effort to protect people from COVID-19. Visible 24/7 from May 23-June 21”

— Shana Nys Dambrot, LA Weekly