Amy Myers (artist)

Amy Myers (born 1965, Austin, TX) is an American artist. She is best known for her large-scale charcoal and pastel drawings, which depict complicated worlds reminiscent of scientific patterns. Her father was a physicist, a fact often noted as an influence on the aesthetics and structure of her work.[1][2]

Education

Myers received a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1995, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999.

Career

Myers has had solo exhibitions at Valerie McKenzie Fine Art in New York, Taley Dunn Gallery in Texas, Sweeney Art Gallery in Riverside, California, Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center in Georgia, Mike Weiss Gallery in New York, Mary Boone Gallery in New York, Danese Gallery in New York, Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, and Suzanne Vielmetter Projects in Los Angeles, among other venues. Myers has received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the American Academy in Rome, Mana Contemporary, and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation. Myers' work has been discussed in numerous publications including Hyperallergic,[3] the New York Times, BOMB Magazine,[2] Art in America, ArtCritical,[1] and Artnews.

Collections

Myers' work is in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum in New York,[4] the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston,[5] the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the Greenville County Museum of Art in Greenville, South Carolina, and the Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, California,[6] among others.

References
  1. "A Magically-Engendered World: Amy Myers at Mike Weiss". artcritical. 2006-10-01. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
  2. "Amy Myers by Eric Fischl - BOMB Magazine". bombmagazine.org. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
  3. "Drawing a Universe of Cosmic Sexuality". Hyperallergic. 2015-10-01. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
  4. "Records from Artist and Object files". Guggenheim. 2016-12-13. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
  5. "Virtual Underground, Blue Phase | The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston". www.mfah.org. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
  6. "Amy Myers". Laguna Art Museum. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
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