ARTIST STATEMENT
My work focuses on material exchange, immediacy, aesthetic dialogue and invented territories.
Every image, whether objective or nonobjective, is founded on deconstructed historical, cultural, and religious paradigms. These smashed realities are then reformed into a singular home. Each painting, drawing, and analog collage is a further examination of this elseworld and its physical and cultural constructs. I further maneuver these spaces with derelict icons, mixed media elements and soft narration as these languages consolidate.
Negotiating the terms of this reality allows me to do the same within my own.
BIOGRAPHY
Derek Meier is a painter and mixed media artist based in St. Paul, MN, where he works with artists with disabilities as a Designated Coordinator and Art Educator at Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts (St. Paul, MN). Meier received a BFA with a focus in Studio Painting from the University of South Dakota. He has work in the Minnesota Museum of American Art’s Permanent Collection, as well as the University of South Dakota’s Permanent Collection and President's Collection.
Recent solo exhibitions include Memory Palaces at Red Garage Studio (Minneapolis, MN), There is No One New Around You at Exposure Gallery (Sioux Falls, SD), and Detecting Broader Patterns at MacRostie (Grand Rapids, MN).
Recent group and juried exhibitions include Open Door XVI at Rosalux Gallery (Minneapolis, MN), Way Out at La Grange Gallery (Cernay-Les-Reims, France), Be. Long. at Dutoit Gallery (Dayton, OH), The Figure Show at Minnetonka Center for the Arts (Minnetonka, MN), Bright Side at Gamut Gallery (Minneapolis, MN), and the traveling exhibit Fiction (With Only Daylight Between Us) at Divisible Projects (Dayton, OH).
Recent curatorial projects include Groundswell at Artspace Jackson Flats (Minneapolis, MN), and an upcoming group exhibition in 2022 at Gamut Gallery (Minneapolis, MN).
Meier has worked as a teaching artist previously at Edina Art Center (Edina, MN), Rum River Art Center (Anoka, MN), and as an Artist-in-Residence at the Mississippi Creative Arts School (St. Paul, MN).
Community fundraising efforts include Art 4 Shelter (Minneapolis, MN), Washington Pavilion Arts Night and Artists Against Hunger (Sioux Falls, SD).
My work focuses on material exchange, immediacy, aesthetic dialogue and invented territories.
Every image, whether objective or nonobjective, is founded on deconstructed historical, cultural, and religious paradigms. These smashed realities are then reformed into a singular home. Each painting, drawing, and analog collage is a further examination of this elseworld and its physical and cultural constructs. I further maneuver these spaces with derelict icons, mixed media elements and soft narration as these languages consolidate.
Negotiating the terms of this reality allows me to do the same within my own.
BIOGRAPHY
Derek Meier is a painter and mixed media artist based in St. Paul, MN, where he works with artists with disabilities as a Designated Coordinator and Art Educator at Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts (St. Paul, MN). Meier received a BFA with a focus in Studio Painting from the University of South Dakota. He has work in the Minnesota Museum of American Art’s Permanent Collection, as well as the University of South Dakota’s Permanent Collection and President's Collection.
Recent solo exhibitions include Memory Palaces at Red Garage Studio (Minneapolis, MN), There is No One New Around You at Exposure Gallery (Sioux Falls, SD), and Detecting Broader Patterns at MacRostie (Grand Rapids, MN).
Recent group and juried exhibitions include Open Door XVI at Rosalux Gallery (Minneapolis, MN), Way Out at La Grange Gallery (Cernay-Les-Reims, France), Be. Long. at Dutoit Gallery (Dayton, OH), The Figure Show at Minnetonka Center for the Arts (Minnetonka, MN), Bright Side at Gamut Gallery (Minneapolis, MN), and the traveling exhibit Fiction (With Only Daylight Between Us) at Divisible Projects (Dayton, OH).
Recent curatorial projects include Groundswell at Artspace Jackson Flats (Minneapolis, MN), and an upcoming group exhibition in 2022 at Gamut Gallery (Minneapolis, MN).
Meier has worked as a teaching artist previously at Edina Art Center (Edina, MN), Rum River Art Center (Anoka, MN), and as an Artist-in-Residence at the Mississippi Creative Arts School (St. Paul, MN).
Community fundraising efforts include Art 4 Shelter (Minneapolis, MN), Washington Pavilion Arts Night and Artists Against Hunger (Sioux Falls, SD).
