Platform
Meris Drew
Timothy Wehrle
November 6 - December 6, 2025
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Stellarhighway is excited to partner with David Zwirner’s exclusive online source for art, Platform. Featuring paintings by Meris Drew and Timothy Wehrle, the presentation runs for the month of November.
Meris Drew's work is an inquiry into how the earth appears, the potential that lies within it, what it means and what we will make of it. The paintings, like the swampy Floridian landscape where she grew up, are places where volatile organic systems intersect, and are full of science, storytelling and magical thinking. Through nested cycles of painting and unpainting, each canvas is a reenactment of the structures of nature flourishing and decaying from micro- to macrocosm.
Meris Drew (b. 1995, Ft. Lauderdale, FL) holds an MFA in Painting from Indiana University. Drew’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Stellarhighway, Brooklyn, NY; Bottom Feeder Books in Pittsburgh, PA, Racecar Factory in Indianapolis, IN and Grunwald Gallery of Art in Bloomington, IN. Group presentations include those with Whisper in the Roots, My Pet Ram, New York, NY, Platform x David Zwirner; John Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington, IN; The Lodge, Los Angeles, CA; Schwitzer Gallery, Indianapolis, IN; Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH; Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX; University of Texas, Tyler, TX; University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC; Betty Isermann Gallery, Sarasota, FL; Artspace 111, Fort Worth, TX; and, Project Moné, New York, NY. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, residencies and grants, among them a Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship nomination, the Bloomington Emerging Artist Grant, grants from the a Rauschenberg Foundation and the Ringholz Foundation, a residency through the Indiana University Center for Rural Engagement, and multiple awards from the National Society of Arts and Letters. Her work was recently published in Warm Milk, Saw Palm, and New American Paintings, and she has taught painting and drawing at Indiana University and University of North Carolina.
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Timothy Wehrle makes obsessive artwork that is a patchwork of scenes both real and imagined. In them, the artist’s emotional labor unfolds: an ongoing quest for a sense of self and belonging. Exploring the dynamics and pitfalls of contemporary culture, Wehrle’s imagery deftly fuses an aura of charm with a complex vision of humanity, posing questions about civilized existence. Writer and gallerist Randall Morris has observed that, “[Wehrle’s] drawings poetically unwrap the concept of a Cold War of the soul in a new world where the artist-citizen is constantly acted upon by encroaching depersonalization but is able to resist and ultimately strike back utilizing dreams, visions, and art making.” Executed in graphite, colored pencil and ink that he makes himself from walnuts, Wehrle’s intricate images distill moments of experience like pages from a diary. His conceptual material is wide-ranging, spanning topics of lighthearted homage (a quirky dog he saw on the street or the festive tendencies of octogenarians), to the poetry of everyday life (the mind-expanding capabilities of music, the intangibility of beauty and the complexities of love), to harsh comments on the ills of society (child abuse, poverty, internet pornography, the divisiveness of technology and the ultimate breakdown of human interaction).
Timothy Wehrle (b. 1978; Iowa, US) holds a BFA from Bard College. Wehrle has exhibited work with numerous galleries and institutions including Stellarhighway, Brooklyn, NY; the John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, WI; Cavin Morris, New York, NY; Shrine, New York, NY; PPOW, New York, NY; and, Dieu Donne, New York, NY.
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