MONROE - Monroe Arts Center welcomes a new exhibit to Frehner Gallery by nationally-known artist and University of Wisconsin-Madison art professor Frances Myers. Her exhibit, titled "Fences/Borders: Somewhere Between Fantasy and Reality" will open Friday, Oct. 1 and will be on exhibition through Oct. 29.
Myers, who lives in Hollandale, is a printmaker, installation, and video artist, and has most recently been working with digital prints. She is chair of the graphics area at UW-Madison and earned her MA and MFA from there.
Myers has been invited to lecture, teach, curate exhibitions, and exhibit work at such institutions as Duke University, School of the Chicago Art Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans, Brown University, Notre Dame University, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), Portland Oregon Museum of Art, University of Georgia (Athens), and University of Hawaii-Honolulu. She is a fellow of the National Academy of Art in New York City. Myers has received two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, an H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship, and a Kellett Mid-Career Award, plus many sabbaticals to research her own work.
Myers work will be a unique installation piece specifically designed for the Monroe Art Center's Frehner Gallery. An installation artwork is art that is created for a specific site and may transform the perception of a space.
Myers began her work by meticulously measuring the gallery walls because they were to become the canvas for her creation. "After measuring the space I stood in my studio and looked around at what was there, what I might have forgotten about, and what I could rediscover," Myers said. "I decided to use only what already existed or was stored in this space, with one exception: I collected branches and twigs to reflect the fences of New Mexico."
The photo transparencies, photos, and found objects all relate to her travels in New Mexico and her records of Native American archeological sites. She said she soon recognized a unifying element as she worked and thus the theme of fences emerged.
An opening reception for the exhibit will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday in the MAC Frehner Gallery. At 5:30 p.m., Myers will speak briefly about her exhibit. The event is free and open to the public.
This exhibit has been made possible by Monroe Arts Center Corporate Underwriter- Colony Brands Inc. and Season Media Underwriters Monroe Publishing, LLC and Big Radio, with additional support from Michael and Shelley Muranyi; Pete Guenther and Barb Woodriff; and Lee and Chris Knuteson.
Myers, who lives in Hollandale, is a printmaker, installation, and video artist, and has most recently been working with digital prints. She is chair of the graphics area at UW-Madison and earned her MA and MFA from there.
Myers has been invited to lecture, teach, curate exhibitions, and exhibit work at such institutions as Duke University, School of the Chicago Art Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans, Brown University, Notre Dame University, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), Portland Oregon Museum of Art, University of Georgia (Athens), and University of Hawaii-Honolulu. She is a fellow of the National Academy of Art in New York City. Myers has received two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, an H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship, and a Kellett Mid-Career Award, plus many sabbaticals to research her own work.
Myers work will be a unique installation piece specifically designed for the Monroe Art Center's Frehner Gallery. An installation artwork is art that is created for a specific site and may transform the perception of a space.
Myers began her work by meticulously measuring the gallery walls because they were to become the canvas for her creation. "After measuring the space I stood in my studio and looked around at what was there, what I might have forgotten about, and what I could rediscover," Myers said. "I decided to use only what already existed or was stored in this space, with one exception: I collected branches and twigs to reflect the fences of New Mexico."
The photo transparencies, photos, and found objects all relate to her travels in New Mexico and her records of Native American archeological sites. She said she soon recognized a unifying element as she worked and thus the theme of fences emerged.
An opening reception for the exhibit will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday in the MAC Frehner Gallery. At 5:30 p.m., Myers will speak briefly about her exhibit. The event is free and open to the public.
This exhibit has been made possible by Monroe Arts Center Corporate Underwriter- Colony Brands Inc. and Season Media Underwriters Monroe Publishing, LLC and Big Radio, with additional support from Michael and Shelley Muranyi; Pete Guenther and Barb Woodriff; and Lee and Chris Knuteson.