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PlatteForum’s
Creative Residencies!
SUSAN MEYER
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Creative Resident Susan Meyer worked on a mixed media installation during her November 29, 2004 – February 10, 2005 residency at PlatteForum. Entitled, Gestaltungsvorschlags (Formation Proposals) , the piece depicted a series of planned, utopian landscapes — futuristic, sci-fi, B-movie version. Made of low-grade materials unfit for the whims of eternity, inhabited by tiny, pseudo-classical plastic figures seemingly unable to connect with each other or their current situations, and ruled by unseen forces outside of their control, these utopias bend, like so many others, under the weight of human fragility and the forces of nature, history and time. Additionally, Meyer collaborated with youth from PS1 Charter School creating real and imagined 3D landscapes with photography and mixed media that was exhibited in the back gallery.
Her work was held “in-process” throughout her residency period offering the public a chance to visit a working artists studio. She will continue to explore this body of work over a year long period.
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Artist Statement
Creative Resident Susan Meyer will be working on a
mixed media installation during her November 29, 2004
– February 10, 2005 residency at PlatteForum.
Tentatively titled, Gestaltungsvorschlags
(Formation Proposals), the piece will
depict a series of planned, utopian landscapes —
futuristic, sci-fi, B-movie version. Made of low-grade
materials unfit for the whims of eternity, inhabited
by tiny, pseudo-classical plastic figures seemingly
unable to connect with each other or their current
situations, and ruled by unseen forces outside of
their control, these utopias bend, like so many others,
under the weight of human fragility and the forces
of nature, history and time. Additionally, Meyer will
work with youth from PS1 Charter School to create
real and imagined 3D landscapes with photography and
mixed media that will be exhibited in the back gallery.
The work will be in-process throughout
the residency period.
Artist Bio
Susan Meyer is an installation
artist based in Denver. Her work has been widely exhibited
including the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver; Boulder
Museum of Contemporary Art; ARC/Raw Space Gallery in
Chicago; The Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe; Arvada
Center for the Arts and Humanities; the Nicolaysean
Art Museum in Wyoming; and at Zeile/Judish Gallery in
Denver. She has been awarded artist-in-residence fellowships
at Pilchuck Glass School (WA), Anderson Ranch Arts Center
(CO), Ucross Foundation (WY), Sculpture Space (NY) and
the Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute (CO). Meyer
is currently Adjunct Professor at the University of
Denver’s School of Art and Art History.
| PlatteForum’s
Creative Residency Program builds on
the tradition of artist residency programs around
the world and is unique to Denver. The program
offers the public an opportunity to see a body
of work being developed by an artist, and then
experience the culmination of that work in exhibitions
and performances. Each residency incorporates
an intensive workshop for under-served youth,
which builds on the artist’s forms and for
concepts. The artists share their passions for
the creative process with the youth. This collaboration
is the cornerstone of our learning programs. |
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