ARTIST STATEMENT
My work focuses on material exchange, immediacy, visual play and aesthetic dialogue.
Deletion is a critical step in my creative process. I typically utilize paint and mixed media collage elements and work very fast and instinctively on many different pieces at once so that the body of work grows together. From there I identify and isolate the moments I found to be successful and delete what I consider to be irrelevant. The deletion is often achieved by building small and large bodies of unmodulated color fields. Resting these next to other fields allows me to create honest, sculptural lines and forms by pinching paint together.
The way landscapes are constructed is something that informs many of my paintings: the different ways their visual space is carved up and shared between natural and man-made elements and their varying agendas. I work to maneuver these spaces with soft narration and derelict symbols.
BIOGRAPHY
Derek Meier received a BFA with a focus in Studio Painting from the University of South Dakota. He has work in both the University’s Visual Arts Department Permanent Collection and the University President Collection.
Recent exhibitions include Memory Palaces at Red Garage Studio (Minneapolis, MN), There is No One New Around You at Exposure Gallery (Sioux Falls, SD), Detecting Broader Patterns at MacRostie (Grand Rapids, MN), and the traveling exhibit Fiction (With Only Daylight Between Us).
Recent curatorial projects include Groundswell at Artspace Jackson Flats (Minneapolis, MN), and an upcoming group show in fall 2020 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).
He is currently based in St. Paul, where he works with artists with disabilities as a Client Service Coordinator and Art Educator at Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts (St. Paul, MN) and as an Art Outreach Educator through Artistry (Bloomington, MN).
My work focuses on material exchange, immediacy, visual play and aesthetic dialogue.
Deletion is a critical step in my creative process. I typically utilize paint and mixed media collage elements and work very fast and instinctively on many different pieces at once so that the body of work grows together. From there I identify and isolate the moments I found to be successful and delete what I consider to be irrelevant. The deletion is often achieved by building small and large bodies of unmodulated color fields. Resting these next to other fields allows me to create honest, sculptural lines and forms by pinching paint together.
The way landscapes are constructed is something that informs many of my paintings: the different ways their visual space is carved up and shared between natural and man-made elements and their varying agendas. I work to maneuver these spaces with soft narration and derelict symbols.
BIOGRAPHY
Derek Meier received a BFA with a focus in Studio Painting from the University of South Dakota. He has work in both the University’s Visual Arts Department Permanent Collection and the University President Collection.
Recent exhibitions include Memory Palaces at Red Garage Studio (Minneapolis, MN), There is No One New Around You at Exposure Gallery (Sioux Falls, SD), Detecting Broader Patterns at MacRostie (Grand Rapids, MN), and the traveling exhibit Fiction (With Only Daylight Between Us).
Recent curatorial projects include Groundswell at Artspace Jackson Flats (Minneapolis, MN), and an upcoming group show in fall 2020 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).
He is currently based in St. Paul, where he works with artists with disabilities as a Client Service Coordinator and Art Educator at Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts (St. Paul, MN) and as an Art Outreach Educator through Artistry (Bloomington, MN).
