EFA STUDIO PROGRAM: ALUMNI

Amy Myers

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Amy Myers’ large-scale drawings and paintings simultaneously reference particle physics, biology, philosophy and the human mind. Myers has received numerous grants and residencies, including The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Maison Dora Maar, Yaddo, and The American Academy in Rome. In addition to solo exhibitions at Mary Boone Gallery (New York, NY), Suzanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, and Rhona Hoffman Gallery (Chicago, IL), and Talley Dunn Gallery, (Dallas, TX) her work has been shown in many museums and is in the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, The Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, Los Angeles, The Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others. Publications that have cited her work include The New York Times, ARTFORUM, Hyperallergic, ARTnews, and BOMB.

The work explores premises such as the unseen world of molecules and atoms, the laws that govern their interaction, coupled with the exposure to ideas concerning scientific experimentation within the notion that everything is a combination of something else. Each body of work begins with research into visual complexity and the unpredictable nature of the universe. Over time, a symbolic language evolves which function as substructures of the composition. These systems help navigate both elements of time and complexity in the work. Symmetry is at the heart of the studio practice since all particles in the universe are spinning, creating an inherent visual symmetry. Compositions are slightly off center, creating a dynamic spatial relationship between the artwork and audience, which in turn allows the composition to maintain its inherent motion.