Ladders is an exhibition by artist Dave Meeker who continues his explorations in luminous technology. The resulting light sculptures become a shot of vitamin D in the gray of the Pacific NW winter. Mr. Meeker invites viewers into this body of work in his artist statement…..
Take a moment to daydream. Put your phone down and dream with me. Focus on not focusing. Take the long view that leads to clearer insight and better understanding. I’m visualizing (looking for) the exit... sometimes it's in front and sometimes it's behind on the path. Ladders is an exhibition about casting light on dark times. Here, in winter, with a stiff political breeze adding to the chill, there is an escape hatch. I’m proposing an escape into beauty. Leave the dark behind; let your eyes adjust to the color and intensity of the light. Dave Meeker, 2019
Mr. Meeker's first exhibition with Vernissage Fine Art was about the concept of HOME, a basic human need. The psychologist Abraham Maslow’s widely recognized theory of human needs includes in its foundation safety, security, and warmth – along with food, water and rest. There are many variations on what constitutes home – from moveable tarp or vehicle to permanent, residential neighborhood to formal acreage and estate. Communities form, rise and decline only to rise again but in different forms.
Observing the changing demographics of housing in the Bay Area, where the artist lived for many years and now seeing major changes in the Portland, Oregon housing landscape where he is now residing, Mr. Meeker conceived of this exhibition. Using a wide range of materials to sculpt - from cardboard moving boxes to pennies, shaped LED lighting and an inflating and deflating blue tarp -, the exhibition formed to symbolize densities of housing, geographies of neighborhoods, and the many transitory aspects of home.
See more of Dave's work here - http://www.davemeekerart.com.
Take a moment to daydream. Put your phone down and dream with me. Focus on not focusing. Take the long view that leads to clearer insight and better understanding. I’m visualizing (looking for) the exit... sometimes it's in front and sometimes it's behind on the path. Ladders is an exhibition about casting light on dark times. Here, in winter, with a stiff political breeze adding to the chill, there is an escape hatch. I’m proposing an escape into beauty. Leave the dark behind; let your eyes adjust to the color and intensity of the light. Dave Meeker, 2019
Mr. Meeker's first exhibition with Vernissage Fine Art was about the concept of HOME, a basic human need. The psychologist Abraham Maslow’s widely recognized theory of human needs includes in its foundation safety, security, and warmth – along with food, water and rest. There are many variations on what constitutes home – from moveable tarp or vehicle to permanent, residential neighborhood to formal acreage and estate. Communities form, rise and decline only to rise again but in different forms.
Observing the changing demographics of housing in the Bay Area, where the artist lived for many years and now seeing major changes in the Portland, Oregon housing landscape where he is now residing, Mr. Meeker conceived of this exhibition. Using a wide range of materials to sculpt - from cardboard moving boxes to pennies, shaped LED lighting and an inflating and deflating blue tarp -, the exhibition formed to symbolize densities of housing, geographies of neighborhoods, and the many transitory aspects of home.
See more of Dave's work here - http://www.davemeekerart.com.