The word "raga" comes from a Sanskrit word meaning "color". The resulting music is intended to evoke specific emotions or "color the mind" of the listener. Gerety’s most recent body of work has evolved her practice of cut, carved and painted plywood into something wild, free and altogether weird. The new work is a synthesis of painting and sculpture. Gerety’s work merges abstract and representational forms with art historical references. “Life is a the longest shortest time” and this work is the freest work I have ever made and feels like the most direct line from my creative unconscious to physical form while being aware of the weight of art history and accumulated knowledge. I am creating archetypes of landscape, nature and art history; abstracted memento mori, landscape as memento mori, the ephemeral fused with the concrete to get to the essence of my truth through art.
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I see my work as grounded in printmaking: I carve and cut plywood, making carved paintings and prints, which embody the qualities of printmaking and the three-dimensionality of sculpture. I have created my own process of hand printing; my own medium and formal language of shape and color, cut paper and carved wood, my own form of poetic abstraction and metaphor, appealing to the collective unconscious through the personal narrative.
We don't have to call something a tree because it's a tree.
— Richard Tuttle
Meghan Gerety lives and works in Marfa, TX and New York City. She received her MFA from CCNY, BA from Barnard College and attended Atelier Clouet in Paris. Her work has been exhibited at Bill Arning Exhibitions, Renyolds Gallery, White Columns, Andrew Kreps Gallery, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, the University of Richmond Museum, among others and is held in numerous public and private collections.