Statement
Experimental communities influence my work; they epitomize our best and worst instincts colliding. Drop City, was an early (1965) commune in Trinidad, Colorado. At the trash yard, Droppers would use axes to cut out car hoods for their geodesic domes. Given a Dymaxion Award by Buckminster Fuller in ’67, Drop City was abandoned by the early ‘70s.
My pieces suggest the forms and palettes of Drop City, and of Modernist architecture and design, with elements of discord.
Asian scholar’s stones, objects of psychic transport, are also an inspiration, particularly for the smaller sculptures included within Plinth.
Bio
Hudson-based artist Susan
Meyer makes sculptures, installations and 2-dimensional artworks utilizing hand
and digital methods. The works explore the utopian instinct, interweaving
landscape and architecture. Meyer has
exhibited throughout the US at venues including the Albany International
Airport Gallery; the Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ; Markel Fine Arts, New
York, NY; the Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY; Albany Institute of History and
Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver; Center for Visual Arts in Denver;
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art; Artspace New Haven, CT; and the Islip Art
Museum Carriage House, NY. Artist residencies include Sculpture Space, Anderson
Ranch Art Center, Ucross and Pilchuck. Meyer is an Associate Professor of Art
at The Center for Art and Design of The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY.
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| Plinth, 2019, wood, acrylic, collage, paint, foam, plaster, wire and paint, 5’7” x 9’6” x 7 ½” |
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| Detail, Plinth, 2019, wood, acrylic, collage, paint, foam, plaster, wire and paint, 5’7” x 9’6” x 7 ½” |
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