From the museum’s View magazine:
Natalie Lanese and Andrea Myers are teaming up for this endeavor, each harnessing their dramatic use of color and scale to turn ordinary walls and floors into an unforgettable environment for visitors to enjoy. While Myers typically works in fabric and Lanese in paint, they’ll combine techniques and materials in this exhibition.
United by bold color and pattern, the installation promises to be a feast for the eyes. In discussing her work, Myers describes how “zigzags of fabric brushstrokes pulse on and off the wall, building a soft geometry, transcending the original form and function of the fabric. The density of patterning stretches across surfaces, suggesting expansive views of imagined waterways, skyscapes, and erosions, striations, or something and somewhere in between.”
This complements Lanese’s processes and techniques. “I make abstract geometric paintings and installations inspired by landforms and rock formations that, combined with dizzying color contrasts, play with perception of shallow space,” she explains. “Relying on repetition, line, scale shifts, and collage techniques to push and pull the picture plane, the resulting image manipulates and challenges spatial expectations.” Myers lives and works out of Columbus, while Lanese lives and works in Cleveland.
