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. It has been eight years since her last solo exhibition at Plus Gallery, though she's been super active ever since with multiple showings in prestigious curated exhibitions such as the MCA Denver's
"Biennial Blowout" and "Decades of Influence," two presentations to the Miami's annual December art-fair marketplace, and a host of other significant exhibitions both locally and outside the state. Plus Gallery most recently shared Meyer's works on our second floor exhibition space as well as 2010's cutting-edge group exhibition "Invincible Cohort."
Those who recall 2004's "Malfunction Junction" as fondly as we do know the extraordinary level of thought, time and detail that Meyer puts into an exhibition. "Plato's Retreat" follows suite, another singular effort that takes her conceptual emphasis of the last seven years on utopian ideals to new heights. 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.
Please mark your calendars for our artist talk with Susan on Friday, November 2nd at 7pm, presented in conjunction with Denver Arts Week.
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