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Kerry Vander Meer completed
her MFA in sculpture from Mills College. Her talents, however, also extend
into the realms of painting, printmaking, mixed media, installation, and
performance art. Not only has Vander Meer exhibited and taught extensively
throughout Northern California, she has also exhibited in New York, Seattle,
Chicago, Santa Fe, as well as numerous galleries and museums across the
country. Her works appear in collections in U.S., Germany, Spain, Ireland
and Japan. She is the recipient of a number of prestigious awards including
artist-in-residency awards at the Cill Rialaig Project in Ireland, Millay
Colony in Upstate New York, Villa Montalvo in Santa Clara, California,
and Foundation Valpariso in Spain.
While in Ireland, Vander Meer designed a community project called
Beir Mo Bheannache Chucu
(Remember Me to Them)
that brought
together hundreds of people and involved the construction of over two hundred
fabric and paper boats, each representing the families that migrated from
the Iveragh Peninsula over the past 150 years. After returning to California,
Vander Meer sewed the boats together to form a large Celtic cross which
she exhibited, suspended from a ceiling, at the Yerba Buena Center in San
Francisco.
In addition to exploring
migrations, Vander Meer's content-rich art deals with such issues as the
environment and the effect of the media on body image. Over four years
she developed a body of work titled "Hardly There" about Vanishing Amphibians
as a way to investigate endangered species and our planet.
Vander Meer's work has
been praised by influential critic Lucy Lippard, and is included in many
books and publications such as Artweek, San Francisco Focus, New York Times,
and The Oakland Tribune.
She currently teaches art at Creative Growth, an art center
that serves adults with disabilities and studies Iyengar yoga. |
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