Chapter 11: Curatorial label for Mélanie Myers

Speaker 0 00:00:00 Chapter 11, curatorial label for Melanie Meyers. This chapter is the text written by curator Heather Anderson. It's two minutes long. Speaker 1 00:00:09 Heather writes. Melanie Meyers explores the Jacques of landscape and land art as mediated by photographs drawing from the seemingly unlimited image bank available on the internet. Myers leverages drawing and pepi as a practical and economical way of engaging with monumental sculptures cited in the landscape, extending an earlier theme of her work in which she examined. Touchstone works of land art by Richard, Sarah and Michael Heiser, among others in this new installation, the Get know based artist depicts a rugged Canadian forest landscape as though seen from the water in the upper triptic white negative space forms inhabit the shoreline, amids stumps, branches, and a dense screen of coniferous trees. These ghost-like shapes reference British artists. Henry Moore's three piece sculpture Vertebrae 19 68 69 in the drawing below another enigmatic form. This one inspired by Moore's large reclining figure, 1984 and patterned with delicate green scales rests entwined with sprawling branches building up the underlying surface with pepi and sculpting freestanding elements. Myers pushes the forms and possibilities of drawing two French style doors, structurally distorted like images reflected on rippling water serve as the foreground, like the detailed wall drawings, the doors, pencil crayon surfaces, evidence the labor of their creation. Their alluring camouflage effect invites us to come closer while their windows become frames through which to view the multi-dimensional landscape beyond. Speaker 0 00:01:47 Please move to the next stop. Continue to your right for three meters and then turn right and continue for two and a half meters. The artwork will be on your left. You are standing in the middle of the gallery towards the back or top of the L. This artwork is on one of the black floating walls.