Works
Overview

Linn Meyers' (b.1968, Washington D.C.) works are physical manifestations of movement. Through repetitive sequences of dots and lines within close proximity, Meyers' works mimic the movement of time, of nature, and of space.

 

The basis of any image begins with a single point. A single point lacks meaning, but in relation and by association to another, it becomes a part of a collective—a line. In this way, Meyers’ process is an intuitive one. She constructs her image with a ‘matrix’ that serves as a basis for the structure of her image, which she then fills with corresponding dots and lines. The structure of her works is geometric, but the form of her image occurs organically and intuitively. Certainty exists in structure but uncertainty dwells within its forms.

 

With every point, with every line she makes, she begins her process all over again. This accumulation of process is what creates the image. This recurrence is what gives dimensionality to her works, which then creates a physicality to a two-dimensional plane. Meyers also constructs site-specific drawings, inducing works that immerse the viewers into her creations. The ephemeral nature of her site-specific drawings emphasizes the fleeting nature of all things, but also emphasizes process—the exploration of her ‘body through space.’

 

There is a subtly and ephemerality within her works that reveal and reflect the paradox of human existence. As no hands can mimic the perfect line or the perfect circle, the non-linear nature of her works lingers within the imperfections of human existence.

 

Born in 1968, Meyers earned her BFA from The Cooper Union, New York, NY, and later an MFA from California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. Meyers has shown her works internationally for more than twenty years, of which solo museum exhibitions include The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA., among others. Her works are included in the public collections of The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection Washington, D.C., The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA, and more.

 

Meyers currently lives and works in Washington, D.C.

 

๊ฑฐ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฒฝ์„ ๋งˆ์ฃผํ•˜๊ณ  ์ ๊ณผ ์„ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋‚˜ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์ฑ„์›Œ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ž‘๊ฐ€. Meyers๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ๋„๊ตฌ ์—†์ด ์ž‘๊ฐ€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์†์œผ๋กœ ์ ๊ณผ ์„ ์„ ์ฐจ๋ก€์ฐจ๋ก€ ๊ทธ๋ ค๋‚ธ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์น˜ ์ž์—ฐ์˜ ์ˆœ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ์•ž์˜ ์ ์ด ์ฐํžˆ๊ณ  ๋‹ค์Œ์˜ ์ ์ด ์ƒ์„ฑ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ์„ ํ–‰ํ•œ ์„  ๋‹ค์Œ์— ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์„ ์ด ์ƒˆ๊ฒจ์ง„๋‹ค. ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ๋…ธ๋™์ด ์‘์ง‘๋œ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์  ์† ๋์—์„œ, ์ž์นซ ๋ฌด์˜๋ฏธํ•ด๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ ์š”์†Œ์ธ ์ ๊ณผ ์„ ์€ ๋‹ค์Œ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ์ „์ฒด์˜ ์žฅ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ™”๋ฉด์„ ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ•ด๋‚ธ๋‹ค. Meyers๊ฐ€ ์•„๋กœ์ƒˆ๊ธด ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋Š” ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ์‹ ์ฒด์  ์›€์ง์ž„, ์†Œ์š”๋œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„, ๊ณผ์ • ์†์—์„œ ์Šค์ณ๊ฐ„ ์ƒ๋…๋“ค์„ ๊ทผ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์‹œ๊ฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌํ˜„ํ•ด๋‚ธ๋‹ค. ๋Š๊น€์—†์ด ์š”๋™์น˜๋Š” ์„ ๊ณผ ์ ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ํ˜น์ž๋Š” ์–ด๋–ค ์ง€ํ˜•์„, ๋ฌผ๊ฒฐ์„, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ• ์ง€ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค. ์œ ์—ฐํ•œ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€์˜ ํ๋ฆ„์ด ์ž์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ์ผ์ข…์˜ ํ™˜์˜์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฐ€๋“ ๋ฉ”์šฐ๋Š” ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ ์–ธ์ œ๋“  ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ณด๊ณ , ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์š”์†Œ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ชฐ์ž…ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์˜ ์žฅ์†Œ๋กœ ์žฌํƒ„์ƒ ๋œ๋‹ค.

 

Meyers์˜ ๋ฒฝ ํŽ˜์ธํŒ… ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ํŠน์ง•์€ ‘์žฅ์†Œ ํŠน์ •์ ’์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ ํ•ด๋‹น ๊ณต๊ฐ„์— ๋งž์ถ”์–ด ๊ธฐํš๋˜๋ฉฐ, ๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐ„ ์ „์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์‹ธ๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ž‘์—…์€ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐํš์„ ๋”ฐ๋ฅด์ง€๋งŒ, ์ž‘๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ํŠน์ • ๊ณต๊ฐ„์—์„œ ์˜ค๋กฏ์ด ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด๋‚ด๋ฉฐ ์ œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์„ ๊ฑฐ์นœ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋–ค ๋„๊ตฌ์  ๋„์›€์—†์ด ๋ฒฝ์„ ๋Œ€๋ฉดํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋ ค์ง€๋Š” ์œ ๋™์ ์ธ ์„ ๊ณผ ์ ์€ ๊ณต๊ฐ„๊ณผ ๊ณต๋ช…ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋กœ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ„๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ์„ ์€ ๊ท ์ผํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์œจ๋™๊ฐ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‘๊ป˜๋ฅผ ์ง€๋‹ˆ๋ฉฐ, ์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ์›์œผ๋กœ ์ฐํžˆ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š” ์ ๋„ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ ํฌ์šฉ ๋œ๋‹ค. ์™„์„ฑ๋œ ํŽ˜์ธํŒ…์€ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ์‹ ์ฒด์  ์—๋„ˆ์ง€์™€ ์ƒ๊ฐ์˜ ํ๋ฆ„, ์กฐํ˜• ์š”์†Œ์™€ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์˜ ์ƒํ˜ธ์ž‘์šฉ์ด ์‘์ง‘๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค. ํ™”๋ฉด์€ ์ƒ๋™ํ•˜๋Š” ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ถ„์ถœํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ์ƒ์€ ๋Šฅ๋™์ ์ธ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ๋œ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ์ž ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๊ณ , ๋ฒฝ๋ฉด์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ฑธ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ปค๋‹ค๋ž€ ์ž‘์—…์„ ์กฐ๋งํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์‹ ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์„ ์ˆ˜์šฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ฒฝ ํŽ˜์ธํŒ…์€ ์ „์‹œ ๊ณต๊ฐ„, ์ œ์ž‘์— ์Ÿ์•„๋‚ธ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ์‹ ์ฒด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋™์ ์ธ ๊ฐ์ƒ์ด ์–ด์šฐ๋Ÿฌ์ง€๋ฉฐ ์‹ ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์ˆœํ™˜์„ ๊ฑฐ๋“ญํ•œ๋‹ค.

 

 

 

์žฅ์†Œ ํŠน์ •์  ์ž‘์—…๋“ค์€ ์ „์‹œ๊ฐ€ ๋๋‚˜๋ฉด ํŽ˜์ธํŠธ๋กœ ๋ฎ์—ฌ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง„๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์น˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ ์ž์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜๋ช…์„ ์ง€๋‹Œ ์œ ํ•œํ•œ ์ƒ๋ช…์ฒด์ธ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ด๋ณ„์„ ๊ณ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์†Œ๋ฉธ์˜ ๊ณผ์ •์€ ์ƒ์„ฑ์˜ ๊ณผ์ •๋งŒํผ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ง์—†๋Š” ์ผ์‹œ์„ฑ์€ ๋งˆ์น˜ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ํ˜„๋Œ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ณ ์ฐฐ ์ด์ž ๋งŒ๋ฌผ์˜ ๊ฐ€๋ณ€์ ์ธ ๋ณธ์งˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ๋‚ ์นด๋กœ์šด ์Šค์ผ€์น˜์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋Š๊ปด์ง„๋‹ค.

 

Linn Meyers๋Š” 1968๋…„ ์ถœ์ƒํ•˜์—ฌ, The Cooper Union, New York, NY์—์„œ BFA๋ฅผ, ์ดํ›„์—๋Š” California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA์—์„œ MFA๋ฅผ ์ทจ๋“ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. 20๋…„ ์ด์ƒ ๊ตญ์ œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™œ๋™ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋‹ค๋ฐฉ๋ฉด์—์„œ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ „ ๋ฐ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ „์‹œ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์ฃผ์š” ์ „์‹œ๋กœ๋Š” The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA. ๋“ฑ์˜ ๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€์—์„œ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•œ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ „์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.

 

 

Meyers์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection Washington, D.C., The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA ๋“ฑ์ง€์˜ ํผ๋ธ”๋ฆญ ์ปฌ๋ ‰์…˜์— ์†Œ์žฅ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.

 

Meyers๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ Washington, D.C.์— ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ํ™œ๋™ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.
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