Solid Art Services Newsletter #4
Hello all!
In this edition of our newsletter, we're excited to feature the incredible artist Meg T. Noe, who also happens to be one of our talented art handlers. Scroll down to explore her captivating work and read our exclusive interview with her. Discover the beauty and inspiration behind her art.
And don't forget, we offer a wide range of services to support your art needs. From fabricating crates and pedestals to exhibition build-outs, installing, packing, transporting, shipping, and art storage – we've got you covered. If you require any of these services, please get in touch with us!
Tell us about your studio practice?
For about the last five years, I’ve been making work about angels. I find, collect and photograph cherub sculptures, and work with industrial casts and casting. I started obsessing over them during a residency in Iceland, which is a place that feels like heaven, and the fascination continues to grow - an indescribably connection. I’m curious about the consumer relationship with spiritual objects, and for me the cherubs represent this questioning of the human experience, and the curiosity of an existence of God, or presence of God. A question every human faces regardless of their own conclusions. The angels are all mass produced so you see them everywhere, all over the world. They have this omnipresence and hold these characteristics: playful, sad, contemplating, joyful, silly, and in various states of decay can be pretty creepy. There’s a kind of dissonance in them. Much of my work previously explored themes of death, so it makes sense for me that I would move towards this kind of questioning. So I’ll go on my little angel hunts out in the world to photograph statues and play with still lifes tinkering with objects or make casts of the sculptures themselves and sometimes reproducing the same photograph with new materials. Recently I started making large scale sharpie drawings from the photographs or from product photography from websites like Wayfair or Amazon. Appropriating images and simulating the product photography on my own is a part of this process, but for the drawings I’m interested in bringing forward some characteristics of the objects into the composition themselves. I’ll bounce between materials quite often simultaneously editing and printing photos, making drawings and developing sculptures. Right now I have a new drawing that I just started and have made some trips to local cemeteries to see what I can find.
Do you have any shows coming up?
No and I’m open for studio visits any time. I’ve lived in 4 states in the last 2 years and finally have a studio after a painfully long break. So I’m ready to get back in the flow again.
What do you listen to in the studio?
I listen to music all day every day and really it depends on my mood or what I’m making. Country, metal, experimental, ambient are in heavy rotation. I’m not really into podcasts but I enjoy eating a bunch of candy and listening to a ghost stories series called Spooked while I’m making the large sharpie drawings.
Tell us about your first experience making art.
I played with craft books constantly as a kid. My mother worked in graphic design so we always had creative activities around the house and I tinkered on things constantly. I guess I stole her camera in my preteen years and that might have been the beginning of something. A more profound memory was the first time someone asked me if I was an artist. I hesitated to answer and also knew with certainty for the first time what that meant for me and sheepishly said yes.
What projects do you have coming up?
Right now I’m focusing more energy into a new project as a meditation teacher. I’m still slowly developing the project but the foundations are based on offering meditation classes, selling artist made spiritual objects like cushions, ceramics or candles, and featuring artists/creatives whose work is informed by mindfulness and meditation. I’m hoping to launch it before the new year.
Who are your favorite local LA artists?
Kirsten Stoltman
Cali Thornhill DeWitt
John Divola
What are your three favorite books?
The Wisdom of No Escape, Pema Chodron
Mammother, Zachary Schomburg
I Love Dick, Chris Kraus
What are your three favorite movies?
Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders
Seventh Seal, Ingmar Bergman
Mandy, Panos Cosmatos
Who are your three favorite artists?
Let me just say lists like these are incredibly hard but this is where I’m at right now.
Sophie Calle
Sara Cwynar
Nancy Spero
Office Update
We are rotating our office art every couple of months here at Solid and Meg T. Noe is our first featured artist!
Meg T. Noe and Leonard Kaplan
Artificial Fire Fake Flame 3D Fire campfire Centerpiece flame Torch by Tatuo
Permanent Mark on Canvas, 108’’ x 72’’, 2019
Solid Playlist
Here is a little playlist of music we’ve been listening to at our facility! Enjoy :)
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