Rita Myers

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Rita Myers (born 1947) is an American video installation artist. [1] Her work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. [2]

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Early life and education

Myers was born in Hammonton, New Jersey,. [1] and attended Saint Joseph High School in her hometown. [3] She received a B.A. from Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Jersey and an M.A. from Hunter College, New York. [4]

Work

Shauna Snow writing in the Los Angeles Times described Myers' "Rift Rise" as "a meditation upon destructive force that incorporates video monitors, music, live trees and mixed media constructions into a confrontation of landscapes". [5] Cathy Curtis in the same newspaper added that "images of destruction (fire, charred tree branches) and renewal (rushing water, green leaves) play on both sides of opposing banks of monitors, one made of sharp-edged black slabs, the other covered with live birch trees. At once very simple and very grand in scope, the installation offers a five-minute meditation on the cycle of life." [6]

Also in the Los Angeles Times, "The Allure of the Concentric" was described as having "four monitors amid large volcanic rocks show close-up views of leaves and weeds, dry cracked ground and the silhouette of stark tree trunks against sky." [7] Curtis described it as a room-size installation where the viewer enters "through a metal gate that is left ajar. Landscape imagery plays on six video monitors set on arrangements of rocks on either side of the room. At the far end of the gallery, three tall aluminum mesh “castles” huddle together. In the center of the room, three dead dogwood trees overhang a pool of water." [8]

Helen A. Harrison in The New York Times described "In the Planet of the Eye" as "a severe structure of Gothic arched steel, metal and wire mesh frames two distorted chairs. Slits of natural light provide restricted illumination, and attention is focused on a video monitor, suspended from the ceiling, on which a spinning gyroscope is juxtaposed with revolving views of a desert landscape." [9]

Publications

Publications by Myers

Publications with contributions by Myers

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Collections

Myers' work is held in the following permanent collection:

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 "Rita Myers". utexas.edu. 10 August 2016. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
  2. 1 2 "Rita Myers - MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
  3. ↑ via United Press International. "Oakhurst Boy Wins NJ Legion Oratory Contest", The News (Paterson), March 13, 1965. Accessed January 18, 2023, via Newspapers.com. "The other three contestants in the order of finish were: Rita Marie Myers, 17, of 323 E Pleasant Ave.. Hammonton, a senior at St. Joseph's High School, Hammonton, 'The Fire of Our Founding Fathers Revitalized',' a $100 scholarship."
  4. ↑ "Electronic Arts Intermix: Rita Myers : Biography". www.eai.org. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
  5. 1 2 Snow, Shauna (15 October 1989). "Artists Turn Landscape Art Into Video". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  6. ↑ Curtis, Cathy (8 November 1989). "Art Review : 'American Landscape Video' Exhibit Breaks New Ground". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  7. 1 2 Archives, L. A. Times (10 June 1988). "'The Electronic Grove' : Video Art Takes the Viewer Into the Picture". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  8. 1 2 3 Curtis, Cathy (7 December 1989). "Art Review : Slow Pace Helps One Savor Fullerton Exhibit : Photography: Video grabs the spotlight at "Continuum and the Moment," a celebration of the camera's 150th anniversary". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  9. 1 2 Harrison, Helen A. (23 September 1984). "ART; THE WORKINGS OF THE ARTIST'S MIND". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  10. ↑ "Rita Myers: Phantom Cities". fac.umass.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
  11. ↑ "Whitney Biennial 1979". whitney.org. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
  12. ↑ 1979 Biennial exhibition. Whitney Museum of American Art. 1979 – via Internet Archive.
  13. ↑ "Video and Ritual - MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
  14. ↑ "The Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s - Hamburger Kunsthalle". www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
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