Ursula Meyer

Ursula Meyer
Born1915
Hanover, Germany
Died2003 (aged 87–88)
Education
  • Reggia Scuola, Faenza, Italy
Known forSculpture

Ursula Meyer (1915–2003) was a German-born American artist and a professor of sculpture.

Biography[edit]

Ursula Meyer was born in Hanover, Germany in 1915.[1] She studied ceramics at the Reggia Scuola in Faenza, Italy.[2] Meyer became a professor of sculpture at the City University of New York in New York City in 1963, and she would remain at CUNY's Lehman College until her retirement in 1980.[3][4] She wrote a number of articles and reviews in newspapers and art magazines in the United States.[5] Her perspective on minimalist art was one of many recognized voices in the art world of the 1960s.[6] Meyer authored the book Conceptual Art published by E.P. Dutton in 1972.[7] After her death, she received a retrospective exhibit at the Art Gallery of The Graduate Center of The City University of New York.[4]

Meyer's sculpture has been described as focused on the interplay of transiency and stability,[8] flexible and transcendent of size and shape,[9] and deeply aware of the historical and political dimensions of the monumental.[10]

Exhibitions[edit]

Solo exhibitions[edit]

  • Sculpture, Amel Gallery New York, New York (1964)
  • Dedalus 8, A.M. Sachs Gallery, New York, New York (1968)
  • Ursula Meyer, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York (1968)
  • Ursula Meyer, Herbert H. Lehman College Art Gallery, Lehman College, Bronx, New York (1971)
  • Ursula Meyer, Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, New York (1974)

Selected group exhibitions[edit]

  • Artist-Craftsmen of New York, Cooper Union Museum, New York, New York (1963, 1964, 1965)
  • National Design Center, New York, New York (1964, 1965)
  • Artists for CORE (1967)
  • Artists for SEDF (1967)
  • Cool Art of 1967, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
  • Cool Art – Abstraction Today, Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey (1967)[1]
  • Listening to Pictures, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York (1967)
  • Outdoor Sculpture, Hunter College, New York, New York (Bronx Council on the Arts) (1967)
  • Schemata 7, Finch College Museum of Art, New York, New York (1967)
  • Penthouse Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (1967)
  • Riverside Museum, New York, New York (1967)
  • Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York (1967)
  • The Variable Module, Architectural Art, Washington, D.C. (1968)
  • Highlights of the 1967–1968 Season, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut (1969)
  • Gallery 9, Chatham, New Jersey (1969)
  • Artist-Craftsmen of New York, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York (1969)
  • 9 from CUNY, Galerie Simone Stern, New Orleans, Louisiana (1969)
  • Hunter College, New York, New York (1969)
  • Two Person Show: Ursula Meyer & Gio Pomodoro, Galerie S. Stern, New Orleans, Louisiana (1970)
  • Hawthorn Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York (1970)
  • Projected Art/Artist at Work, Finch College Museum of Art, New York, New York (1970)
  • Museum, Albany State Museum, Cornell University Museum, Skidmore College Hawthorn Gallery (1970)
  • National Arts Club, New York, New York (1970)
  • The Flag Show, Judson Memorial Church, New York, New York (1970)
  • Open Show, Women's Interart Center, New York, New York (1971)
  • Collage of Indignation II, Hundred Acres Gallery, New York, New York (1971)
  • Sculpture in the Park, Van Saun Park, Paramus, New Jersey (New Jersey State Council on the Arts) (1971)
  • Feminist Art, MUSEUM, New York, New York (1971)
  • Faculty Show, Lehman College Gallery, Bronx, New York (1971)
  • Eight Alumni Artists, Columbia University, New York, New York (1974)
  • From Teapot Dome to Watergate, Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York (1974)
  • Faculty Drawings, Lehman College Gallery, Bronx, New York (1974)
  • Selections from the Permanent Collection, Finch College Museum of Art, New York, New York (1974)
  • Drawings, Fordham University Lowenstein Gallery, New York, New York (1974)
  • Annual Invitational Show, Noho Gallery, New York, New York (1974)
  • Art & Time, Lehman College Gallery, Bronx, New York (1974)
  • CAPS Sculptors, City Gallery, New York, New York (1983)
  • Distinguished Alumni Exhibition, Columbia University, New York, New York (1990)

Special exhibitions, permanent installations[edit]

  • Brussels Worlds Fair: group of vases (1958)
  • Computer Center, CUNY: sculpture (1974–80)
  • Graduate Center, CUNY: several sculptures (1974–80)
  • Graduate Center, CUNY: sculpture installation (1989)

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Ursula Meyer: Euclidean Geometries - 1960s Sculpture and Drawings". www.gc.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
  2. ^ ""Ursula Meyer (1915-2003)". clara.nmwa.org. Clara Database of Women Artists. 2012. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
  3. ^ Meyer, Ursula (1974-12-01). "Notes on Studio Art Education at the College Level". Art Journal. 34 (2): 141–142. doi:10.1080/00043249.1975.10793671. ISSN 0004-3249.
  4. ^ a b "Ursula Meyer, Euclidean Geometries: 1960s Sculpture and Drawings", The Art Gallery of The Graduate Center The City University of New York, July 13, 2005.
  5. ^ Meyer, Ursula. "How to explain pictures to a dead hare." ArtNews vol. 68, no. 9 (January, 1970)
  6. ^ Meyer, James (2004-01-01). Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300105908.
  7. ^ " In Conversation: Alain Kirili with Robert C. Morgan", The Brooklyn Rail, May 3, 2012.
  8. ^ Willard, Charlotte. "The Third Dimension." New York Post 13 January 1968.
  9. ^ Artnews vol. 66, no. 10 (February 1968)
  10. ^ Wallach, Alan. "CAPS Sculptors." Arts Magazine 1983.

External links[edit]

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