linn meyers: Infinity Loop
Make Room is delighted to present Infinity Loop, an immersive site-specific installation by artist linn meyers at the gallery’s special project space [ROOM]. Over the course of nearly twenty years, meyers has developed a drawing practice that revolves around the use of vintage graph paper. Initially intended as scaled studies for larger, site-specific projects, these studies have since evolved into a significant and independent body of work.
Infinity Loop marks a return to the origins of these drawings, transforming them into a physical environment that both contains and is contained by the artwork. This exhibition represents a "turning-inside-out" of space and scale, inviting viewers to experience the work from within—a true infinity loop, where the artwork and the viewer are intertwined in an endless cycle of reflection and immersion.
The installation is intricately designed around and within meyers' graph paper drawings, a cornerstone of her studio practice. A curated selection of these works will be integrated into the installation, allowing visitors to feel as though they have stepped inside the artist’s process. The walls of [ROOM] will be adorned with a large-scale wall drawing that envelops viewers, creating an environment reminiscent of the graph paper itself—both precise and expansive.
Infinity Loop also serves as a profound exploration of meyers' interest in architecture and its often unnoticed, yet powerful, influence on human experience. Inspired by the studio process of her architect father—who layered tracing papers to refine his designs—meyers mirrors this method in her art, where each visual edit accumulates to create spaces of both physical and emotional resonance.
The exhibition further delves into the paradox of employing a tool of order, like graph paper, to navigate the chaotic flux of existence. meyers' journey from a strictly systems-based approach in her early career to a practice that now incorporates improvisation and intuition reflects a dynamic interplay between control and spontaneity.
In Infinity Loop, meyers invites the audience to engage deeply with the work, participating in a continuous dialogue between structure and fluidity, between the measurable and the immeasurable. In this space, art, architecture, and the viewer converge, offering a contemplative experience that extends beyond the gallery's confines.
linn meyers (b.1968, Washington D.C) meyers sees her work as an act of resistance to the ever-increasing speed and scale of the world in which we are living. She dedicates her practice to tenderness, and an unhurried, deliberate approach to image-making. meyers earned her BFA from Cooper Union and her MFA from California College of the Arts. Her works have been included in exhibitions and permanent collections in public and private venues including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Drawing Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Amorepacific Museum of Art in South Korea, and the British Museum, London, among others. meyers has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, and several grants from the DC Commission on the Arts. She has been Artist In Residence at The Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC, The Bemis Center in Omaha NE, Millay Arts in Austerlitz, NY, The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ireland, Hayama Residency in Japan, Iris Project in Los Angeles, Flying Horse Editions in FL, and The Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, NM. meyers currently divides her time between Washington, DC, and Los Angeles.