Meghan Gerety

The contemplative nature of Meghan Gerety’s work reflects both her practice of Eastern philosophy and her immersion in the history of modern and contemporary painting. The subject of her work is the landscape. Based on photographs, her landscapes fuse the exploration of inner-self with the gestural energy of action painting. Inspired by Eastern philosophies, Meghan’s work plays on the notion of time, whereas any manual or intellectual work that brings a person out of his/her state of passivity is part of the process of Enlightenment. Fusing the spiritual with the physical, they depict a world which is real but not realistic.

Meghan sees her work as both social gesture and endurance piece. The process is labor intensive and long, it is physically demanding and calls to mind the spiritual practices in which through repetition and physical endurance one can achieve a higher state of consciousness. This current body of work explores the history of place and how personal, social, cultural, psychological, emotional and spiritual memories both real and imagined are implied onto a place.

Though the images in her work are based on photos of real places, once they become drawings they assume a reimagined history.