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Centric 60: Amy Myers
August 29- October 29, 2000Centric 60 presents the drawings of Los Angeles-based Amy Myers. Myers’s first museum exhibition, it features a selection of the artist’s ink, charcoal, and graphite drawings. At once monumental in size and delicate in execution, Myers’s pieces are intricate abstractions that simultaneously recall meticulous scientific illustrations and imagery of science-fiction fantasy. The daughter of a particle physicist, she attributes the development of her artistic style to an early exposure to mathematics and science. This early exposure created a belief in an underlying system of scientific reason, yet Myers does not consider science to be a strict set of laws. Her work plays on this duality as she crisply renders atomic and geometric forms that are echoed by soft, gestural marks, thus revealing an interest in scientific inquiry and the goal of finding the beauty of a perfect equation.
Centric, which began in 1981, is an ongoing series of exhibitions dedicated to introducing the University Art Museum ausidence to work by individual artists that has not previously been shown in the area.
Image Credit: Amy Myers, detail of Heliocentropy, 1998, ink & graphite on paper, 120 x 133 in., Courtesy of the artist and Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco.
