the rift and the ring

Meris Drew

November 19, 2023 - January 7, 2024

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Stellarhighway is pleased to present the rift and the ring, a solo show of new work by Meris Drew (b. 1995, Ft. Lauderdale, FL). The presentation debuts landscape paintings and ceramics that are among the artist's most ambitious to date. Dense with color and mood, Drew seeks the mysterious past and an indescribable future within this new group. Their active surfaces show the artist's hand and process, lending them a loose immediacy and plasticity, and enhancing their physicality—a dynamic, shifting relationship that can only be fully perceived with careful looking, emerging from tangled passages.

Drew holds an MFA in Painting from Indiana University. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Racecar Factory in Indianapolis, IN and Grunwald Gallery of Art in Bloomington, IN. Group presentations include those with 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, a grant from 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 #3 and Saw Palm #15. Drew previously taught painting and drawing at Indiana University, and is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, where she also resides.

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