New York artist Elisabeth Meyer makes small, delicate
prints that draw from a range of natural and architectural influences
that are personal in nature, but easily translate into compositions
in which "meaning must be extracted from the reading of images
alone." Alongside her traditional works on paper, Meyer will
exhibit larger, shaped plywood paintings that employ painting
as well as printmaking techniques such as rubbings, chine colle
and stencil. Her finished pieces are dynamic explorations of "the
contrast between the delicate and the clumsy."
Meyer is an Associate Professor of Art at Cornell University
in Ithaca, New York. She has been a visiting critic at Brown University
and the Rhode Island School of Design and has exhibited her work
throughout the United States and in Italy.
In his work, glass artist Chris Taylor plays with notions
of originality and explores the gray area between fact and fiction.
Often employing subterfuge, Taylor makes precise glass copies
of purchased or found objects and returns them in place of the
originals, eventually displaying the original item, a glass copy,
and paperwork documenting the refund. He is interested in the
way "fabrications and storytelling have made some speculations
exist as historical fact." Taylor also creates traditional
glass vessels using nontraditional methods which includes scraping
discarded glass from the bottom of glassblowing furnaces and turning
it into highly textured bowls and vases.
Taylor teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design's glass department,
where he received his MFA. He has exhibited his work and lectured
across the United States and in Denmark and Kenya.