Plus Gallery charges up the fall art season with the return of Susan Meyer and her fascinating new installation "Plato's Retreat," on view from October 19th through November 24th. Meyer is one of those rare artists whose focus is almost exclusively on large-scale environments steeped in both general and extremely specific historic reference points. Her conceptual emphasis on utopian ideals has been building in complexity over time as she has experimented with the interface of technology and traditional sculpture materials, as well as a dash of new-media. Central to her new body of work in "Plato's Retreat" is a looming concrete warren of a structure, at once architectural model and dilapidated ruin suggesting a once sparkling futuristic architectonic utopia now sparsely inhabited, overbuilt, abandoned and overgrown - still functioning, though in a manner that seems to favor the individual over the collective. "Plato's Retreat" finds Meyer back in rare form in Plus Gallery's own "idealized" gallery space, her first solo exhibition in Denver since 2004's equally ambitious "Malfunction Junction."
Susan Meyer in her Denver studio, 2012
Susan Meyer is featured in the current issue of Moder In Denver, available at fine establishments and bookstores around the region.
Susan Meyer is featured in the current issue of Moder In Denver, available at fine establishments and bookstores around the region.
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