wall at the bus stop
Cheryl Meeker, 2019
barbie's dreamhouse at occupy the dreamhouse
Feeling that the YBCA Occupy show was short on context, Occupy Docents created a guerrilla art action in which individuals participating in the
Occupy movement occupied the exhibit in order to explain to gallery
goers the economic, social and political context in which the YBCA
Occupy show occurred.October 2, 2012
Cheryl Meeker put a 1960's Barbie Dreamhouse in the coat check at YBCA during the YBCA Occupy show. On the occasion of the Occupy Docents lectures and conversations with gallery goers in the galleries, Meeker put the Dreamhouse in the lobby of the museum, where it remained undisturbed during the course of the event. The contents having shifted during travel and storage, the furniture and other objects inside the dreamhouse, were shown as they appeared when the walls were unfolded.
Trading on Tiffany
Cheryl Meeker (2010) "Bookstack trading on Tiffany," inkjet on NY Times, unique, 12 x 9.5 inches
SFMOMA OPEN SPACE collaboration with Meg Schiffler and Ishan Clemenco
I Choose for You: Meg Chooses for Cheryl (Part 3)
Text and images by Cheryl Meeker
In a simple way, Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s video installation, Lahja (The Present), might either be viewed as an investigation of internal psychological sources for patterns of behavior that exhibit as phobias, or as a hinting at repressive societal norms which manifest in the development of compensatory phobic behaviors. My interest in fear and its outcomes lies away from the focus on the psychological and on the personal that is reflected here and in the media’s endless obsession with celebrity culture and personality politics. Far from an interest in how the implications of the individual will play out externally in the personality or in society, my fascination turns more on the ways that systems of regulation, deregulation, and of ideology work socially, politically, and economically to create fear in the individual. Perhaps the subtext we have in common is that we can only strengthen our ability to work out solutions to problems that have created fears by not avoiding them. And the possibility of transcending these fearful states through actual problem solving is the present we are able to give each other. We forgive ourselves when we look to the systemic problems as the culprit, and realize that they, far more than the individual, create fear in ourselves and abroad, and that power elites have everything to gain by pointing to the individual as the root of economic and social malaise.
— Cheryl Meeker, June 18, 2011
Fukushima google search/filter stylize/patchwork
homeless google search/pixilate filter/halftone
military google search/texture filter/stained glass
unemployment google search/artistic filter/sponge
Notes:
1 Rogers, Paul. "What are the largest sources of global warming emissions in California? The list is out." mercury news (11/22/2009): n. pag. Web.
2 "Gas Flaring Disrupts Life in Oil-Producing Niger Delta." National Public Radio. (NPR), 07/24/2007. Web. 24 Jul 2007.
3 Del Pesco, Joseph, “State of the Arts”, The Present Group & Horwinski Press, poster series, December 2008
4 "Gas Flaring." Justice In Nigeria Now. Justice In Nigeria Now, 2010. Web. 18 Jun 2011.
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