About The Artist
Meghan moved to Grand Junction in 2019 to explore Colorado. With her sense of wonder and great depth of perception, Meghan experiments like a mad scientist with flora and minerals, chemistry and technology, imagery and abstractions. Her multimedia investigations in nature and landscapes take form in multiple mediums including oil paint, alternative photographic processes, collage, and digital editing.
Meghan mainly paints with oils in her studio using her own photography and experiments as source inspiration, allowing bold colors and gestures to bring her perception of the environment and materials to life. Her practice is therefore part adventure and field study and part rhyming colors and shapes from the collected information into landscapes and abstract forms of nature.
“While I paint from photographs sometimes, I am less concerned with realism or accuracy than I am with portraying the 6th sense of perception with the paint. Painting, to me, is the resulting task of living a life with overwhelming attention to subtle patterns, optical phenomena, and an obsession with nature. “
Meghan Reker
Born 1994, Walnut Creek, California
Lives and works in Grand Junction, Colorado
Education
2016 BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
2016 Ceramics, Astronomy, Diable Valley College, Pleasant Hill, California
2015 Semester Abroad, Burren College of Art, Balleyvaughan, Co. Clare, Ireland
Exhibitions
2024 Canvas 35 Gallery Group Show at FARM, Fruita, Colorado
2024 Grand Valley Open Studios Tour, Grand Junction, Colorado
2024 Artlight Studios Solo Show, Grand Junction, Colorado
2024 Confluence Studio & Gallery Group Show, Grand Junction, Colorado
2023 Grand Valley Open Studios Tour, Grand Junction, Colorado
2017 Warehouse 416 Group Show, Oakland, California
2016 Graduating Senior BFA Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
2015 Honors Open Studio Show, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
2013-2016 Courtyard Exhibition Show, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
2012-2016 Art Concentrate Group Show, San Francisco Arti Institute, San Francisco, California
Awards
2016 Dean’s Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
2016 The Painting Program Ivan Majdrakoff Art Materials Award, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
2015 Honors Studio Space, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California