Brooklyn, NY: "FOUND & LOST", a solo exhibition of work by Elizabeth Meggs, runs from August 6 - 31, 2022, at Sweet Lorraine Gallery, located at 183 Lorraine St., 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11231. The opening event will be held August 13, from 6 to 9 pm, with an outdoor reception on the roof deck (*rain date is August 20 from 6 to 9 pm).
Artist-designed work will be featured, including prints, posters, fabric design, and clocks. The exhibit explores the discoveries and losses many have experienced in the world in recent years, from profound themes such as hope, time, or love, to mundane items such as umbrellas. Intended as a vibrant, colorful, and fun summer exhibition, this exhibition and opening event are a personal expression by Meggs of gratitude for life, and a catalyst for seeing friends and building community through August, after recovering from being hit by a car and sustaining a head injury in late April of 2022.
The exhibition includes work done during the darkest days of the Covid-19 pandemic. A large scale version of the HOPE poster that Meggs designed for the Hope Poster Wall in Richmond, Virginia, will be on display. This poster was featured in Print Magazine's "The Daily Heller." (https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller designing-a-beautiful-word/ )
Meggs' "Care Squares" design that raised funds to support 3,000 meals via Feeding America, as well as a full wall sized version of colorful "Art Hearts" graphics will also be on exhibit. Fabric inspired by legendary English hill figure known as the Cerne Abbas Giant, a mixed-media cheeseburger self-portrait (made by Meggs in response to the car crash incident and head injury), and a broken umbrella linocut installation further amplify the titular "Found & Lost" theme by making nods to history, identity, and humor.
More than 25 "Art Clocks" will also fill the gallery, presenting Meggs' exploration of time via color and form. Meggs relied on a decade of experience as a non-representational geometric color-centric painter to consider the possibilities of how form and color might be rendered functional while being visual poems as measurements of moments. Read more about the "Art Clocks" here: https://elizabethmeggs.medium.com/designing-time fc40a588c1f0
In the past decade, Elizabeth Meggs has had five solo shows of new work, and exhibited in 75+ group shows, including "Go Brooklyn!" with Brooklyn Museum, Mariner's Museum, Galapagos Art Space, Edward Hopper House, Pratt Institute, and more. A "Sing For Hope" piano she painted was placed at Hudson River Park and Lincoln Center. In 2021, she was one of 78 artists selected for CowParade New York City. Her cow was named the number 6 favorite by "TimeOut New York" (https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/meet-the-incredible-painted-cows-in this-years-cowparade-082421). In 2022, she was selected as one of ten artists in NYC to create an ice sculpture for the Inaugural Governors Island Ice Sculpture Exhibition (https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/photos governors-island-winter-ice-sculptures/). See more at https://www.elizabethmeggs.com and https://www.meggspaintings.com.