05/01 - Time: 2 p.m.

Visiting Artist Amy Myers

The Art Department presents the
2008 Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Sponsored by Faculty Development

Drawing
Amy Myers

Amy Myers creates intricate, monumental drawings that merge the
microcosmic with the macrocosmic in a visionary blending of art,
mathematics, and physics. Myers links sensuous materiality with an
intellectual rigor, exploring through evocative drawings the illusive
terrain of the most profound scientific explorations.

Raised in an environment steeped in scientific inquiry -- her father is a
particle physicist -- Myers grew up comfortable questioning the
unpredictability and interconnectedness of nature and the universe.
Since these formative discussions, Myers' work has incorporated and
integrated esoteric notions of quantum physics, mathematical equations,
and, most fundamentally, the evidence of an unmitigated experience of
the possibilities of the human imagination in the mysteries of the
universe.

Born and raised in Texas, Myers studied art and received her B.F.A. from
the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri and her M.F.A. from the School
of the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois. Her works are in numerous
collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Fine
Arts, and California State University Art Museum. She is represented by
Mike Weiss Gallery in New York City.

 

Admission: free

Location: Earl Hall room 211

Contact Information: Mia Brownell, (203) 392-6709 , brownellm2@southernct.edu