linn meyers/here today

Linn Meyers, untitled (detail), 2009, wall drawing 10 x 44 feet

February 11 -March 13, 2009
Opening Reception: Wed. February 11, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

Public talk with Linn Meyers and Richard Chartier
Saturday, Feb. 21, 2:00 pm

The Art Gallery at the UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
Second floor atrium, Art/Sociology Building

EXHIBITION

Two large-scale wall drawing installations created in situ by the artist.

Linn Meyers' wall drawings reflect a current trend occurring in her work in which the center of the image is filled with pulsating, curvilinear forms winding in a dramatic and moving pattern that reverberates out to the edges with fewer and more defined repeated lines. The front gallery is transformed by the construction of a forty-four foot long concave wall covered by Meyers' drawing, the artist's largest wall drawing to date. The exhibition also features a number of smaller drawings on mylar, and what Meyers refers to as "preparatory drawings" created as part of the process leading up to the wall drawings.

The back gallery space features a unique first collaborative project between Meyers and sound artist Richard Chartier, in an installation where optical and sonic patterns intersect. With another architectural transformation of the gallery space, two fifteen foot long by eight foot high walls meet in an enfolding chevron, creating both a sound chamber and a drawing surface.

Linn Meyers is the first participant in the artist-in-residence program at The Art Gallery. The program was launched as an opportunity to give artists a space in which to imagine new ways to work. The residency is followed by an exhibition of the realized project, which is documented through time- lapse video and accompanied by a color brochure.

The Art Gallery is supported by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by The Dorothy and Nicholas Orem Exhibition Fund.

The Art Gallery, University of Maryland College Park | 1202 Art/Sociology Building | Second floor atrium | College Park | MD | 20742
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Linn MEYERS artist talk at Hirshhorn

Linn MEYERS: Friday Gallery Talk

January 18, 12:30 pm

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Linn MEYERS will be giving a talk at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden with curatorial research associate Ryan Hill on Currents: Recent Acquisitions, a show that includes Meyers’s work.

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Note the review of Linn Meyers exhibition in this Sunday’s Washington Post
to see it, click on the link below:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/style/studio/120907.html?referrer=emaillink

G Fine Art presents linn meyers

No Time Like the Present

November 3rd – December 15, 2007
Opening reception November 3rd 6:30 – 8:30 pm

In this new work Meyers continues to pursue a meditative ideal, the perfection in repetition. Her lines, however, have taken on a different curvilinear form. The drawings float between optical illusion and grand simplicity, spinning and twisting in front of our eyes.

Meyers maintains her method of mark-making, one line followed by the next with the same spacing and the same trajectory; but, the first line has evolved into a challenge all its own. Harking back to the story of the Greek artist Apelles who was so talented as a draftsman that he was able to render a perfect circle free hand, Meyers tackles this new challenge with the same determined process she has pursued for the last decade and a half.

The drawings read almost as graphs of an undulating topography, swirling whirlpools or weather patterns. But, they are measured and specific. They are in fact an artist’s graph of time and work. Some of the pieces read as if they are blossoming and growing through a sort of linear mitosis, while others are contained in themselves, circling indefinitely. They suggest Buddhist sand mandalas, which are said to contain the entire universe in microcosm and are used as aids in meditation.

Ned Rifkin, from the Smithsonian describes, in his essay for the show’s catalog, the experience of viewing Meyers’ works as a, “sheer delight of seeing something that is fundamental and emphatically simple as method or technique while grasping the immense complexity because of the physical and optic effects of the work.” He credits Meyers as enabling the viewer to admire the prosperity and rigor of her sensibility while introducing us to the wonders in the interstices of space and form that her lines orchestrate; “The work is both fluidly sublime and paradoxically effort laden.”

Linn Meyer’s received her BFA from Cooper Union, New York and an MFA from the California College of Arts in Oakland. She is the recipient of a Pollack Krasner Grant. Her work was acquired this year by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.


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