Mark Meyer

Available Works

In his former career as a biologist Seattle artist Mark Meyer repeatedly witnessed examples of the old adages: “Nature abhors a vacuum” and “The devil’s in the details”. He saw a world in which vacuums and voids do not exist for long, and the smallest minutia can have the most profound effect. From the smallest cells to entire ecosystems, when something becomes vacated it is quickly filled, nothing is left void and nothing is entirely isolated from other elements. It is not surprising that in his drawings Meyer is compelled to fill the visual space and devote his efforts to the details. The new works on paper, in which no space is left blank, reflect the artist’s background and his view of the natural world as extremely complex - “spaces within spaces, systems within systems, mechanisms within mechanism.” As in the world around us, Meyer finds a balance of form and color in these complex, frenetic images.

• Recent Exhibitions: Works on Paper, July 2008; Convergent Topologies (group show), June 2008; Horror Vacui - The Devil's in the Details, November 2005