Anna Meyer / Group VII, Oct 98 - Mar 99

FINAL PROJECTS

3/19/99 to 3/21/99

MAK Center at the Mackey Apartments, 1137 - 1141 South Cochran Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

Austrian artist Anna Meyer considered Los Angeles as a 1:1 model, a city both real and simulated. She interpreted her observations and experiences through models and large scale paintings. Meyer's realistic paintings used photography as a reference point. The subject matter of the photos—the city, people, bars, sexuality, homelessness, social structures, etc.—provided a context that was interpreted through painting. Meyer considered her models, made from everyday materials and painted, as "3-D pictures." She saw Los Angeles, with its many billboards, painted facades, wall murals, and bus-stop placards, as a "big picture carrier" and the experience of traveling through the city by car as similar to being in a movie.