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DEREK MEIER

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA

My work focuses on material exchange, immediacy, visual play and aesthetic dialogue.

Deletion is a critical step in my creative process. I typically utilize paint and mixed media collage elements and work very fast and instinctively on many different pieces at once so that the body of work grows together. From thereI identify the things I found to be successful and delete what I consider to be irrelevant. The deletion is often achieved by building small and large bodies of unmodulated color fields. Resting these next to other fields and shapes allows me to create honest, sculptural lines by pinching paint together. 

The way landscapes are constructed is something that informs many of my paintings: The different ways their visual space is carved up and shared between natural and man-made elements and their varying agendas.  I have a habit of using derelict symbols and crude geometry within these spaces, revealing subtle narrative clues.

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