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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,
collected from her travels, 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. In addition to its embrace of Eastern practices,
her work also recalls the work of the Abstract Expressionists
and contemporary artists. Serving as a platform for a marriage
of East and West, her self-reflective landscapes fuse the spiritual
with the physical, depicting a world which is real but not realistic;
a meditative space unburdened by gravity or perspective.
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