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From Follett
Poem by Seph Rodney, and essays by Jonathan Frederick Walz and Anne Collins Goodyear.;Accompanying booklet: Graph paper drawings.;Includes bibliographical references.;About a line / Seph Rodney -- Gazing has its limits / Jonathan Frederick Walz -- Linn Meyers : flow / Anne Collins Goodyear -- Plates -- Biography. Linn Meyers is best known for her intricate line-based paintings and drawings, and her large-scale installations. This book provides a comprehensive survey of site-specific wall drawings in museums and galleries since 2000, as well as the detailed preparatory drawings and plans created by the artist for these projects, plus recent paintings that inform, and are informed by, the site-specific works. Meyers's large projects require a great deal of endurance and involve drawing in the gallery space over the course of days, sometimes weeks or months, accumulating lines into dense and intricate compositions. The scale of these projects allows Meyers to respond to the existing architectural features, magnifying the wholly committed performativity of her process. On Meyers' exhibition for The Hammer Museum, Senior Curator Anne Ellegood wrote, "The sense of being present while viewing the work is also amplified at this larger scale, allowing viewers to experience the work not just visually but also physically. To see a wall drawing is to be surrounded by it and to feel oneself to be part of the work."
From the Publisher
Washington, DC-based artist Linn Meyers (born 1968) is best known for her hand-drawn lines and tracings for large-scale installations. This book provides a comprehensive survey of her site-specific wall drawings in museums and galleries since 2000, and of Meyers' intricate preparatory drawings and plans. Requiring much stamina, these projects involve drawing in the space over the course of days, sometimes weeks, accumulating lines into dense, intricate compositions. This scale allows Meyers to respond to architectural spaces and magnifies the performativity of her process. On Meyers' Hammer Museum exhibition, Senior Curator Anne Ellegood wrote: "the sense of being present while viewing the work is also amplified at this larger scale ... to see a wall drawing is to be surrounded by it and to feel oneself to be part of the work."