Timothy Paul Myers Exhibition
Masters & Pelavin
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Masters & Pelavin is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent works by Australian-born artist, Timothy Paul Myers. The show, titled Adrift, will present installation works, drawings, collages and sculptures. Mining the past to explore the present, Myers creates visual narratives based on found ephemera from the early 1900s, such as handwritten postcards sent from abroad and photographic slides from family vacations.
Systematic repetition and grid-like arrangements of found materials are prominent themes in Myers’s work. His exhibition includes fantastical allusions to the imagined life of the people and places portrayed in his flea market finds – old postcards, trading cards and lithographs, to name a few – which he then layers with unusual media along the lines of Wite-Out, tape, and color swatches. These unusual combinations are then painstakingly arranged and presented in large and small-format grids. Myers even places some of his works inside immaculate plexiglass display cases, elegantly encasing the art within, causing the colors to seem more extravagant, the presentation gleaming.
Although Myers incorporates found objects and documents into his compositions, his art is not an exercise in nostalgia. Unlike, say, the artist Joseph Cornell’s dreamy, sentimental shadow boxes, the structure and presentation of Myers’ art is thoroughly modern, its color palate bright and optimistic. When looking at a Timothy Paul Myers piece, the viewer is treated first to a sculptural, almost meditative grid of layered cards, tape, drawings or pencils in straight, orderly lines. But upon closer inspection, the documents and curios of bygone days peek through, offering glimpses of past lives, like secrets to be discovered behind the layers of artistic composition and craft. Myers’ childhood love of repurposing forgotten objects into modern art is his testament to the age-old human need to collect, order, remember – and beautify – our world.
Myers has recently been the focus of articles and interviews in the New York Times, LA Times, Interior Design Magazine and WWD Magazine, and his work is widely shown in galleries and museums in America and internationally, including the permanent collections of Richard Meiers’ One Grand Army Plaza and the entrepreneur Tory Burch.
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Schedule
from January 10, 2013 to February 23, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-01-10 from 18:00 to 21:00