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While lecturing in 1977 at University of Nevada, Reno, Meyer reacquainted himself with what he describes as the Northern California School of Funk art. Inspired by popular culture and deploying an unlikely mixture of techniques and materials, including lost and found objects, Funk art remains quintessentially American spanning the volatile 1960s and 1970s thanks to names like Arneson, Hudson and Bailey.
“There’s a sophistication to it that surpasses folk art due to the history, humor, distorted language and blatant Rabelaisian nature of it all,”says Meyer. Thanks to the technique of assemblage, Meyer flatly states that it’s all "glues and screws in more ways than one.”
MORE Stuff will feature 12 works with no apparent unifying theme whatsoever other than being a product of Meyer’s imagination and fabrication. Featuring works such as Pop and Mom’s Milk, abstract portraits of Meyer’s parents, the exhibition seeks to challenge viewers with its Made-In-USA craftsmanship, provocative yet humorous nature and perpetual sense of discovery. In other words, Meyer would have you ponder long and have the last laugh. |