GAIL MEYERS

ARTIST STATEMENT:

Gail Meyers circular mixed media sculptures are simple and complex at the same time. Composed of up-cycled embroidery and quilting hoops, string, metal, wood, acrylic paint, and random found objects, Gail plays with layering colors and shapes, the interaction of negative and positive space, and the combining of 2- and 3- dimensional forms.  This has further led to experimentation with light, shadow, and movement.  Asymmetry and equilibrium are essential to the work.

Gail’s wall pieces straddle painting and sculpture.  In Gail’s free-standing and suspended sculptures what is not there is as important as what is there: air, space, and emptiness are integral compositional components. These sculptures express fragility, weightlessness, contingency, as well as energy, joy, and playfulness.

Gail Meyers is a New York City based artist with a background in Art History and Education.  Gail is presently studying at The Art Students League with Bruce Dorfman. Gail worked as a Museum Educator at The Cloisters and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, as an educator in the New York City school system, and as an independent teaching artist.  

Gail has exhibited widely in competitive juried group shows and invitational exhibitions in the tri-state New York area and beyond. Gail’s solo exhibition “Full Circle” (2022) was held at The Center for Maple Grove in Queens, New York. Gail’s most recent awards include a Queens Arts Fund “New Works Grant” for 2024; the Bruce Dorfman Grant Award for study at The Art Students League 2024-2025; Juror’s Choice Award for Eclipse, New England Sculpture Association Exhibition Equinox (2024); Second Place Award for Arabesque, Making Our Marks Exhibition, The International Society of Experimental Artists (2024); The Pietro & Alfrieda Montana Memorial Award for Joy, 110th Annual Exhibition of Allied Artists of America (2023); the Margaret Stefan Draughon Merit Scholarship for study at The Art Students League, 2023-2024.