Body of Work / MAC

“Body of Work” will be open to the public from October 14th to November 19th, Mondays through Fridays, 9 am to 3 pm, and Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7 to 9 pm. For directions and more information visit the Museum of Arts & Culture on the web at www.dbmac.org, or call (914) 576-6518.

The exhibit was curated by Alexi Rutsch Brock, an artist who is also a teacher at New Rochelle High School, and MAC Director Theresa Kump Leghorn, who says she was struck by the way both artists use the human body to create their works. “I love the way Mia Brownell’s work marries techniques of traditional oil painting with shapes based on strands of DNA and amino acis, forms that 17th century painters could never have imagined that are easily recognizable to us.”

The New York Times described Meyer’s work as “vaguely Conceptual-looking monochromatic prints featuring jagged ridges and blotches resembling some kind of late-Jackson Pollock experiment….” Meyer himself, the Times noted, “sees scars … as evidence of healing and resilience.” Leghorn says she found Ted Meyer’s work “both moving and liberating. Because each of the scars he has documented comes with its own story of survival – some trivial, some life changing —  I think Ted’s work encourages us to confront issues of body image and perhaps even reconsider our ideas about beauty.”

About the Artists

Mia Brownell was born in Chicago, Illinois to a sculptor and biophysicist. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon and State University of New York, Buffalo, Mia has been teaching painting and drawing since 1993. She has held a tenured faculty position at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven since 2003. Brownell was recently awarded the Southern Connecticut State University\‘s Faculty Scholar Award and promoted to Full Professor.

Mia Brownell’s paintings are in private, corporate and public art collections including the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. Brownell was recently selected to participate in the Aldrich Museum’s Radius program for emerging artists and a Visiting Artist residency at The American Academy in Rome. Brownell’s paintings have been included in group exhibitions worldwide and are currently on exhibit at the Mattatuck Museum. Additional work by Mia Brownell is also currently on exhibit at Sloan Fine Art, 128 Rivington in New York City, through October 16th. For more information visit www.miabrownell.com.

Ted Meyer is an artist, freelance designer, writer, photographer and illustrator. A graduate of New Rochelle High School, Ted Meyerbegan painting in 1987 and has had shows in museums on three continents. Much of Ted’s work has been influenced by his dealings with the health care system and his own health problems (he was born with Gaucher’s disease, a genetic disorder that afflicts the joints and organs). Ted was recently named a Visiting Scholar at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C. and he speaks to patient and doctor groups on the effects of health on art. He is currently Guest Artist at the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine. Additional work by Ted Meyer will be on exhibit throughout the fall at the Backstreet Gallery, 43 Lawton Street, New Rochelle. For more information visit www.tedmeyer.com.