PS122 Gallery is pleased to present Locks, Combinations, and Keys by Meryl Meisler and the three-part photographic series “Animals in Mind” by Julie McConnell.
Meryl Meisler has documented her observations as an art educator in the NYC Public School System since 1979. Her humorous, thought-provoking images are installed with magnets and locks that were cut off school lockers when students forgot their combinations or lost keys. Meisler’s insider point of view evokes associative narratives of pupils, parents and pedagogues, drawn together by choice, chance and circumstance.
Meryl Meisler is the recipient of numerous fellowships and grants, including NYFA (Fellowship and Catalogue Grant), Artists Space Grant, CBE/Time Warner Art Fellowship, CETA Artists Grant, China Institute and Japan Society Study/Tour Fellowship. Meisler’s artwork has been installed at Grant Central Terminal, throughout the NYC Mass Transit System, South Street Seaport, and permanently at Columbia University Library of Social Work. Her exhibits include The Brooklyn Museum, The New Museum, The Dia Art Center and The Whitney Museum of American Art. Meisler’s work is in the permanent collections of The Brooklyn Historical Society, Islip Art Museum, American Jewish Congress, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Transit Authority, Reuters, Pfizer and AT&T in addition to artist book collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Metronome Library of Barcelona, Carnegie Mellon Library, Chrysler Museum, and the Pompidou Centre Musée National d’Art Moderne. She received her BS from the SUNY College at Buffalo and MA from The University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Julie A. McConnell focuses on the connections between humans and animals in Animals in Mind, a three-part series of photographs and stereograph cards. Playing on the notion of a photograph as an image of the real, these images symbolize the contemplation and practice of a respectful connection with other animal beings.
Julie A. McConnell, a fine arts photographer living in New York City, exhibits locally and nationally. Her work has been exhibited in Neither Muscles Nor Secretions in Madrid, Spain and Aljira’s Emerge Program and Exhibition. Her work has also been featured in the books A Thousand Hounds: The Presence of the Dog in the History of Photography and Death in the Studio, and selections of her digital montage series “Hillary et al.” were featured in Photography Quarterly.
The hallway exhibit is by Joyce Yamada and Joanne Ungar.
For further information please contact:
Susan Schreiber, Gallery Director at 212-228-4249 at ps22gallery@verizon.net.
This exhibition has been made possible through the support of the New York State Council on the Arts, Painting Space 122, Inc., and the Friends of PS122 Gallery.
Transportation:
M15 bus to St. Marks Place
- subway to Astor Place
