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① Artwork:
Fleurs
This painting depicts two flowers in a Mason jar on a blue table in front of a dark background. The artist drew the outlines in the picture by carving into its wood surface. The image references the 17-century Golden Age of Dutch flower paintings, popularized for their ability to remind viewers of life's brevity.
For more than a decade, Meghan Gerety has made large-scale woodblock prints with plywood. In her recent work, she uses the woodblock processes of carving and rolling-on color to create wood reliefs that incorporate qualities from both printmaking and sculpture. Inspired by Dutch vanitas and memento mori paintings, Gerety uses skulls, flowers and other symbolic objects to confront mortality and the passage of time.
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③ Artist:
For more than a decade, Meghan Gerety has made large-scale woodblock prints with plywood. In her recent work, she uses the woodblock processes of carving and rolling-on color to create wood reliefs that incorporate qualities from printmaking and sculpture. Inspired by 17th-century Dutch vanitas and memento mori paintings—as well as more contemporary artists like Andy Warhol—Gerety confronts mortality and the passage of time through this new series, which features skulls and flowers, among other symbolic objects.
BIO:
Meghan Gerety was born in 1970 in New Haven, CT, and resides between Marfa, TX, and New York City, NY. She graduated from the Atelier Clouet in Paris in 1988 and received a BA in Studio Art from Barnard College, Columbia University in New York City, NY, in 1992, where she studied printmaking with Robert Blackburn.
Gerety has presented solo shows at Marfa Contemporary, Marfa, TX (2016), and Spanierman Modern, New York City, NY (2007). Her work has been featured in many group shows, including Kinderhook Office at Bill Arning Exhibitions, Kinderhook, NY (2022); Rock Candy, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA (2016); Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite at the University of Richmond, Richmond, VA (2007); and This Must Be The Place at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Hudson, NY (2005).
She was awarded a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant in 2012 and was Artist-in-Residence at the University of Central Arkansas in 2008.