
Meike Legler
“Twigs Of Hope”, 2020
121,9 x 91,4 x 4,4 cm | 48,0 x 36,0 x 1,8 inch
5.500,00 € excl. VAT
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Meike Legler is a German artist, who mainly works with fabrics as her medium.
She was born in Alzenau in 1983, a small town new Frankfurt, and holds a BA in fashion design from HTW Berlin, where she lived for 10 years. The move to LA in 2016 marked a turning point in her career when she started making wall art out of different fabrics and turned into a full time artist. Since Novemner 2020, she lives in her German hometown...
Meike Legler is a German artist, who mainly works with fabrics as her medium.
She was born in Alzenau in 1983, a small town new Frankfurt, and holds a BA in fashion design from HTW Berlin, where she lived for 10 years. The move to LA in 2016 marked a turning point in her career when she started making wall art out of different fabrics and turned into a full time artist. Since Novemner 2020, she lives in her German hometown again.
Her works are in private as well as commercial collections in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, New York City, Detroit, Palm Springs, Hawaii, Mar Vista, Connecticut, Berlin, Munich, Madrid, London and other cities in the US and Europe.
Artist Statement:
Coming from a fashion design background, fabrics are to me what paint is for a painter. I use them to create works that are inspired by contradictions, life situations, spirituality, as well as my German and Italian heritage. Often I start with the title of the piece that comes to my mind by listening to the news, into myself, or to the people I am surrounded by. The title determines the shapes, colors, and the composition. Sometimes I also just see a composition in front of my inner eye and then I choose fabrics with different textures to add depth and character.
The surface of my works, that consists of numerous pieces of different kinds of fabrics sewn together, looks even, smooth, and almost flawless – the hidden backside however is raw and messy – an analogy to the facade we tend to keep up to make our lives look good from the outside even if beneath the surface it’s all but perfect. In some pieces, I intentionally integrate the fray edges as an accent on the surface of the piece to create tension between order and rawness.I love using fabrics that have laid outdoors for a long time as the sun and the rain work into the fibers and give it a unique and weathered look.
In another experiment I buried a found bed sheet in the soil of my friends' property in Los Angeles for 8 months. The earth, moisture and microorganisms left almost out of space like patterns on the sheet that I now use pieces of to integrate into my works.
Bleach is another medium that I have started using as it changes the colors of the fabrics in ways that are not controllable and that creates its own irreversible pattern.
I use the coexistence between the destroyed, dirty, rebellious fabrics and the impeccable, new and clean fabrics to depict an analogy to our human existence in a body that is often coined by experiences like being hurt and hurting, trauma, suffering, failure and grief and on the other side our eternal, divine and pure souls.
In the past 5 years I have created a large body of works in which I have constantly explored the medium fabric. I made collages, hand stitched and glued fabric on top of each other, integrated other media such as paper, acrylic paint, dirt, clay, crayon and used a wide variety of fabrics ranging from vintage military tents, latex, fake fur, vintage linen, drop cloth, velvet, upholstery fabric, curtains, bed sheets and wool. I’ve played with pleats, volume, draping, geometric shapes, organic and fluid shapes and am continuing to explore textiles as an incredibly versatile and interesting medium.
Solo Shows and Group Shows:
“Garden”, Group Show curated by Annie Wharton and Taryn Lee, Ladies Room Los Angeles
January 16 - February 18, 2021
Online Show
“Synchronicities”, Solo Show curated by Margot Ross
August 13 - September 10, 2019
Soho House West Hollywood, Los Angeles
“Gémeaux De Minuit”, Group Show curated by Melisa Taylor Metzger
August 2-31, 2019
Stella Ripley Contemporary
Québec, Canada
“Modern Contemporary”, Group Show curated by Margot Ross and Carlos Antonio
July 25 - August 25, 2019
Show Gallery
1515 N Gardner St, Los Angeles, CA
“Get A Loom”, Group Show curated by softcore LA, Claremont Graduate University
April 23 - May 23, 2019
Claremont Graduate University
Claremont, CA 91711
Group Show with Javiera Estrada, Kelly Brumfield and Stephanie Vovas
curated by Saatchi Art
August 19 - 23, 2018
E.P. & L.P.
603 N La Cienega Blvd, West Hollywood
Art House LA, Group Show curated by Jacquie Israel
December 02, 2017 - February 28, 2018
Pacific Palisades
http://www.arthousela.com/current-exhibit-3/
"Mutual Affection", Group Show with Kottie Paloma
Art Movement LA
August 11 - 30, 2017
2049 S Santa Fe Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90021
Group Show "Dimensional Circumstances"
curated by Kottie Paloma
May 20 - June 3, 2017 at Nous Tous
454b Jung Jing Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Solo Show "Ignore the Noise"
Opening Reception: April 28, 2017 at The Voyager Shop
300 S Santa Fe Ave t, Los Angeles, CA 90013
"Prana" Cotton canvas, wool, bleach, buried bed sheet and polyester fabric over stretched canvas 100cm x 80cm (39.25” x 31.5”)
“Snack Platter” 2021 Linen, Bleach, Wool, Polyester, Buried Bed Sheet, Vintage Army Tent, Cotton Fabric, Velvet over stretched canvas 48” x 36”
“The Dose Makes The Poison” 2020 Vintage tent, drop cloth, acrylic paint, fabrics, tape, vinyl, thread, oil pastel chalk, glue 60” x 48”
What is it about your studio space that inspires you?
The open space and view on the forest
What sounds, scents and sights do you encounter while in your studio?
Trees, vinyards, factory buildings, singing birds, traffic noise
What themes do you pursue?
Spirituality, eternity, life purpose, life after death
What advice has had the biggest impact on your career?
Only do what feels 100% like you
If you could install your art absolutely anywhere, where would that be?
Dia:Beacon in New York
If you weren´t an artist, what would you be doing?
I would be singer
What are your favourite places besides your studio?
Mallorca, Rome, the Alps, Pacific Highway 1
2017
Ignore the Noise
2017
NIDO
Dimensional Circumstances
Collective Memories
2010, HTW Berlin
121,9 x 91,4 x 4,4 cm | 48,0 x 36,0 x 1,8 inch
5.500,00 € excl. VAT
100,0 x 80,0 x 4,0 cm | 39,4 x 31,5 x 1,6 inch
5.000,00 € excl. VAT
50,0 x 40,0 x 4,0 cm | 19,7 x 15,7 x 1,6 inch
1.200,00 € excl. VAT
50,0 x 40,0 x 4,0 cm | 19,7 x 15,7 x 1,6 inch
1.200,00 € excl. VAT