About the Artist

Shae Meyer was born in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains in Boulder, CO. He studied at the University of Colorado, where he received his BFA in Printmaking. He moved to New York City and began working in studios producing large scale paintings in the Hudson River style, while developing his own processes. His work engages questions concerning objectivity, subjectivity, and individuality within the context of environment. Incorporating materials discarded and overlooked, he examines whether these have intrinsic value, or prescribed value based on their use. By pulverizing these objects, they often lose their natural form, and become hidden in the depths of a painting, becoming a part of the larger whole, an element within a larger context. For Meyer, these materials become an allegory for the value of an individual person, examining if somebody is more than merely the sum of their parts, or perhaps; are all these parts the same. Wondering constantly whether he is a big part of something small, or a small part of something big, or perhaps nothing at all.