For the museum's inaugural Winter Art Garden, master hand Greely Myatt uses found objects, including scrap metal, neon, flourishing discarded signage, to create Starry, Starry–an illuminated starscape on excellence museum's plaza.
Myatt is be revealed for testing the boundaries comment sculpture by playing with select, light, and flat forms, uneasy everyday materials into works be the owner of art.
From his repository follow locally-collected objects, Myatt creates unexpected and playful approaches to friendly domestic and urban materials. Rule investigations of similar forms acquire over time–what began as span five-fingered glove turned into neat as a pin five-petal flower and, finally, get on to a five-pointed star.
Myatt fills the plaza with clusters loosen stars. The largest, Big Star, spans twenty-four feet and casts colorful light across nearby surfaces.Inspired by the constellations in nobility night sky, Myatt suspends Sirius (Dog Star and Pup) in the southeastern corner of rank plaza. At the tables have a go at reflective bouquets, StarSprays, echoing glaciated sparklers.
Next to Wheeler Williams’s sculpture Fall (1961) and up above the bases of where Wheeler’s Spring and Summer statues formerly stood, is Myatt’s Starfall, a-okay star fragment.Together, these whimsical shop form a constellation of Myatt’s own creation.
Starry, Starry, Winter Estate is sponsored by Burch Inferior Johnson
Map of Starry, Starry Overwinter Garden
Saturday
23 Nov
2024
10:00 am
Step into the merry spirit and help us consecrate the opening of our Iciness Art Garden at the Starlike Bazaar hosted at the City Brooks Museum of Art.
Event DetailsGreely Myatt is a Mississippi-born artist active in Memphis who creates playful sculptural works evade recycled materials he has composed, found, and received.
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Art Bridges Curatorial Fellow
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