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linn meyers + richard chartier
Untitled (2008-2009)
a new 8-channel digital sound and wall drawing installation
as part of Linn Meyers exhibit here today
February 11 – March 13, 2009
Opening Reception Wednesday, February 11, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Public talk with Linn Meyers & Richard Chartier
Saturday, February 21, 2:00 pm
The Art Gallery
University of Maryland, College Park
Linn
Meyers is the first participant in the artist-in-residence program at
The Art Gallery. The Art Gallery launched an artist-in-residence
program as an opportunity for artists to create site-specific
installations and to give artists a space in which to imagine new ways
to work. The residency is followed by an exhibition of the realized
project and, in this instance, documented through time- lapse video and
accompanied by a color brochure.
here today showcases two
large-scale wall drawings by Linn Meyers. The 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. Visitors are immediately aware of
transformation of the gallery space with 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. The swirling lines
of Meyers' drawing, made directly on the surface of the walls, fuse
together with the sound piece by Chartier, juxtaposing the organic and
the digital into unified sensorial space. With eight audio transducers
applied directly to the back surface of the walls, Chartier's stark
composition modulates and transfers through the surfaces.
Linn Meyers
is an artist based in Washington D.C. Her art is featured in many
collections throughout the country including: The Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; National Museum of Women in the Arts,
Washington, DC; and the New Britain Museum of American Art, New
Britain, CT. Her art has been featured in exhibitions at the Bus-dori
Project Space and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Tokyo,
Japan; Gallery Joe in Philadelphia, PA; G Fine Art in Washington, DC;
and Margaret Thatcher Projects in New York City. She received her BFA
at The Cooper Union in New York and her MFA at the California College
of the Arts in San Francisco.
Richard Chartier
is a sound/installation artist based in Washington D.C. His minimalist
sound works and installations have been presented internationally in
exhibitions at museums and galleries including: the ICC
(Intercommunication Center) in Tokyo, Japan; Castello di Rivoli in
Torino, Italy; Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; The Art
Institute of Chicago; and G Fine Art in Washington, DC. He has
performed his works live throughout the world at festivals, museums and
art spaces in Europe, Japan, Australia, and North America.
CATALOG.
Featuring an interview with Linn Meyers by Jefferson Pinder, assistant
professor in the Department of Art, and Lara Langer, Ph.D. student in
the Department of Art History and Archaeology. Including full color
illustrations of the two large wall drawings created in situ during
Meyers artist-in-residence at The Art Gallery in January – February,
2009.
CD. a stereo composition based on the installation work will be released in March 2009 by the label Non Visual Objects (Austria) as a CD limited edition of 300.
The Art Gallery
Second floor atrium
University of Maryland, College Park
tel 301.405.2763
fax 301.314.7774
theartgallery@umd.edu
Gallery hours
Monday through Saturday, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Wednesday, 11:00 - 6:00 pm
www.artgallery.umd.edu
RICHARD CHARTIER
www.3particles.com
10:26 PM
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