Color Fields: Andrea Myers
Andrea MyersAugust 10th-December 29, 2024
I take up space as a female artist, reclaiming ‘women’s work’
while pushing the boundaries of painting. –Andrea Myers
In Color Fields, Andrea Myers uses discarded, donated, and domestic clothing in ways that both reference and resist the rigid notions of work traditionally assigned to women. She approaches textiles differently. She uses the visual language of Color Field painting, including vibrantly saturated color over large swaths of a surface. She combines this with a gestural—and a bit rebellious—approach to quilt making to create large-scale panoramas, organic formations, and shifting shapes.
For the artist, colorful fabric functions like tubes of paint. Her sewing machine’s stitches are her drawings—dense, wild, and frenetic with energy and movement. Her color palette is not quiet; but instead, riotous neons and technicolor. Simple shapes suggest landscapes, sun, moon, mountains, rivers, erosions, contours, and topographies. These soft geometries push against the boundaries of the rectangular frame, spilling onto the walls and floors and over obstacles in her path.
Andrea Myers is an interdisciplinary artist who creates work at the intersection of contemporary color field painting, sculpture, and fiber arts. Having grown up in the flat farmlands of the Midwest, Myers’ artwork represents a joyous rebellion against the tight tedium of cross-stitches and the precision of traditional quilt making. Instead, hers is one of clashing colors, scribbling stitches, and joyously coloring way outside the lines.
Myers earned her BFA in Printmedia (2002) and her MFA in Fiber and Material Studies (2006) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Myers’ work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She lives and makes art in Columbus, Ohio.
