Current Project
Jason Meyer "Westing"
Taking its title from an old word meaning westerly progress, Westing presents an early-career survey of Jason Meyer's sculpture. Meyer combines intensive processes with his curiosity and material sensitivity throughout works that date from 1999 to the present. Utilizing materials that shift between human-made and organic, these sculptures explore Western culture's relationship to the natural world. Antler, hide, and soil succumb to physical abstraction, rigid structure, and geometry while steel, electrical wire, and plastic are manipulated into organic forms. Meyer's works examine our strange position among a world that we simultaneously study, define, deny, destroy, protect, and romanticize.
Westing is the second of ICA's emerging artist retrospectives. This exhibit presents new works in context with rarely seen older pieces in order to reveal formal and conceptual arcs created over time.
Jason Meyer website
Taking its title from an old word meaning westerly progress, Westing presents an early-career survey of Jason Meyer's sculpture. Meyer combines intensive processes with his curiosity and material sensitivity throughout works that date from 1999 to the present. Utilizing materials that shift between human-made and organic, these sculptures explore Western culture's relationship to the natural world. Antler, hide, and soil succumb to physical abstraction, rigid structure, and geometry while steel, electrical wire, and plastic are manipulated into organic forms. Meyer's works examine our strange position among a world that we simultaneously study, define, deny, destroy, protect, and romanticize.
Westing is the second of ICA's emerging artist retrospectives. This exhibit presents new works in context with rarely seen older pieces in order to reveal formal and conceptual arcs created over time.
Jason Meyer "Westing"
ICA Baltimore @ North Ave Market
16 West North Ave
Baltimore, MD 21212
June 22 to July 1, 2012
opening reception: Friday, June 22, 6-8pm
closing reception: Saturday, June 30, 6-8pm
Jason Meyer website
