Meg Graham
My collage paintings are multi-layers of found images brought together to tell a new story. The focus varies but the constant is bright colors, high energy with a playfulness that dive in and out of realities. I like to repeat images, which create pattern forms. And I use elements over and over again in more than one piece of work. The act of repeating feels good and elements transform into something else. I shape shift components. What was real becomes unreal and literal becomes abstract. Then things can take on a new meaning or none at all. There are multitudes of things that inspire me. Movement, Metaphysics, thoughts, illusion, dreams, spirit, symbols, space, design, desires and the world around me. Often I work with a theme, but sometimes the pieces are motivated by pure visual sensation. Many times the work becomes a storyboard of feelings that depicts what I want to create in life, and some are simply for fun. Early on, I decided to have no guidelines and therefore no mistakes could be made. It’s a new space of unknown territory. My art is a conversation of self, dreams, spirit and discovery.
-Meg Graham 2010
Meg Graham knew at the age of 6 she was an artist. Her earlier studies focused on Graphic Design and Illustration. She studied at Rhode Island School of Design for drawing and Graphic Design summer of 1979 and she spent the foundations year at The School of Visual Arts 1979-1980.
Later she began focusing her work towards Fine Art with painting and drawing. Her first exhibit was a one woman show in her loft in 1987 of her oil paintings. Meg has been involved with different art organizations and in steering comities though the years. Exhibiting her work with these organizations from 1991-2001. From 2007-2009 she explored working with film and animation. Using Photoshop and found images she did a series of videos titled; Art as Meditation. In 2009 she began an art journal to get back into her painting from doing film. This transformed into the Mixed Media work with collage paintings she dose today. Meg Graham has lived and worked in Chelsea in New York City since 1985.
Meg Graham’s paintings have been exhibited in solo and group shows in art galleries, art foundations, cultural centers and corporations in the eastern coast to coast in the United States. Including La Mama Galleries, 24 Hours for Life Gallery, Leslie Lohman Art Foundation. And the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center Located in New York City. As well as the Charrette Corporation in Woburn, MA.
