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Architectural Installation Artist
Living and Working in Los Angeles Megan Geckler
Living and Working in Los Angeles Megan Geckler
New (old) time lapse movie of “All of these points connecting one” from May 2007. Running time is 1 minute, 20 seconds. Enjoy!
Installation is like a workout
In the middle of installation at Andi Campognone Projects in Pomona, CA. This is brand new work for me, made entirely on-site at the gallery over a span of 4 or 5 days. I’ll report back when we’re done.
What’s so different about this work is that it isn’t my usual installation work. It has more in common with painting than installation, fairly sculptural in form they are industrial and commercial while being obviously handmade. Relying solely on structure to exist, they cannot be moved without having to be destroyed and recreated. Still installation, just not drawing in space, more like painting with lines.
Anyhow, I’m pleased with how the show is coming along. So much so that I took the day off to relax. Tonight we’re going to openings in Chinatown, next weekend - my opening reception.
A year ago, we were in Columbus, Ohio for the Wexner’s 21st Annual Gala. Six Solos was up, including my installation “Spread the ashes of the colors”.
Truly flattered. I source the titles of my artworks from song lyrics. This last one was Foster The People’s “Miss You” - I sent them a link and they approve! Always good to get in touch with the bands that I truly enjoy listening to while making and thinking about the work. Anyone know Arcade Fire? I would like them to see the Wexner installation, “Spread the ashes of the colors”.
Turns out DesignBoom was ahead of me, as usual! (Great job as always DB!) Check out this Bernard Frize post for more insight into his amazing investigation into line, form and color - or reducing painting to its most basic elements with amazing results!
Bernard Frize - (a painter’s painter) makes the seemingly impossible, possible. His brushwork leaves an obvious beginning and end… Or does it? His were among the first paintings to boggle my brain, along with David Reed, who I will leave for a future post.
See more of Frize’s work here, I recommend 2009-2005 - roll over the show names and you’ll see installation shots. Sadly, a lot of the images of single paintings are not available on his site, but you can always check the gallery sites if you catch the Frize-bug.
Enjoy!
Was just looking at this photograph in an auction catalog from an event that benefits the Palm Springs Art Museum called, “Artrageous”. So excited to be involved this year!
Photo-manipulation by Thomas Ruff.
Making new work
Today was spent in the studio planning my upcoming show “A fraction of the sum” to open November 12 at Andi Campognone Projects in Pomona, California. This will be my first exhibition of wall-based work since 2001.
I guess that makes this my ten-year anniversary!
It has been ten years since:
-I got my MFA at Claremont Graduate University
-my first group museum show
-my first solo gallery show (outside of student-stuff)
… and the first wall-based exhibition since then too. I had made some vinyl drawings a while back, but they weren’t really related to my installation work. I have since developed a working practice in several two and arguably three-dimensional formats.
Can’t give too much away just yet, but expect some photos from the installation, starting October 31, spooky and mysterious!!!
This is my artwork featured in this tumblr staff post - check it yo.
Name Papillion Institute of Art ARTE:ZINE
Location Los Angeles
First Post December 2009ARTE:ZINE is a contemporary art zine run by the Papillion Institute of Art in Los Angeles. Established in the spring of 2010, PIA is a multi-disciplinary art space and gallery exhibiting emerging and established artists. Committed to education through the arts, PIA provides art workshops and classes year round taught by volunteer professionals and working artists. PIA TV is their online art network dedicated to creating and producing original web series based on art and the culture around it. The institute is also home to interactive projects like live streamed art openings, live streamed artist talks, and a short film screening series.
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SI Photo Blog
Your link to sports history, one photo at a time.Zach Klein
Working on the internet now so he can live in the woods later.Hyper Geography
“What in the history of thought may be seen as a confusion or an overlapping is often the precise moment of the dramatic impulse.” – Raymond WilliamsPhoto: Installation by Megan Geckler, currently on view at the Papillion Institute of Art.
Megan Geckler
“Lay it down and start up”, 2011
installed at the Creative Artists Agency, Los Angeles, CA
(Source: vimeo.com)
