DR. FRANK GABRIN

St. John’s Episcopal in Queens, New York, and East Orange General, NJ

Gabrin became the first ER doctor in the U.S. known to have died as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the American College of Emergency Physicians. Gabrin knew the stakes of his job. “Inside the emergency, the angel of death is in the room,” he wrote in his 2013 book, “Back From Burnout.” “The pressure is intense, yet there is a calm, a peace, like being in the eye of the storm.”

ARTIST - ELIZABETH LADA: I have been an illustrator for many years, first working for newspapers and then as a freelance illustrator and designer. More recently I rediscovered oil painting, and although I still take on some graphic design work. I try to capture how it feels to live in this incredible area - the sense of peace deep under the redwoods, the nostalgia sparked by a century-old storefront sandwiched between modern glass and concrete, the longing of remembered intimate spaces under trees or colonnades. I am drawn to shadows for what they reveal, for half-hidden sources of light and for beauty in the ordinary.