Scale Maps of the Ocean Floor: linn meyers, Jenene Nagy, and Marc Pally
Opening Saturday March 22, 5-7pm
On view through April 26, 2025
The artworks included here examine our perception of time’s passage, and they question our concepts of scale. linn meyers, Jenene Nagy, and Marc Pally all make labor intensive abstractions. Their practices straddle the line between drawing and painting. The accumulated marks and materials on their surfaces immediately make the time spent making them clear. The human presence and repeated physical motions embedded in the artworks is evident.
Over the hours, days, and weeks spent realizing these pieces, the compositions grow intuitively, expanding and enlarging, yet always with a focused precision. They are devoid of intentional narratives, yet seem encoded with information. They are charting something not fully known or understood, but implied. These cartographic endeavors may not result in legible facts or distinct answers, but a certain shrouded information is still evident, and in the process of experiencing these works there is a way to better understand the world. The idea of the ocean floor here is a metaphor for the inscrutable, paralleling deep internal sensations, where simmering proto-thoughts are forming, but are not always able to be articulated. The time spent on these works allows the artists to mine these depths, to somehow visually record these churning feelings or observations.
linn meyers: Works 2004-2018
To see a wall drawing is to be surrounded by it and to feel oneself to be part of the work.
— Anne Ellegood, The Hammer Museum
linn meyers is best known for her intricate line-based paintings and drawings, and her large-scale installations. Her large projects require a great deal of endurance and involve drawing in a 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. Anne Collins Goodyear notes, “The work encourages viewers to think about our relationship to place, space, and our imaginations.”
Artwork by linn meyers
Texts by Anne Collins Goodyear, Seph Rodney, Jonathan Frederick Walz
Co-published with The Columbus Museum and Jason Haam