Sylvie Mayer
Artist Biography and Statement
Sylvie Mayer is from Providence, Rhode Island and attended the Rhode Island School of Design, receiving a BFA in Painting in 2018. Since, she has been an artist-in-residence at Elsewhere Studios in Paonia, Colorado, the Fondation des Etats-Unis in Paris, France, and Adams State University in Alamosa, Colorado. Her studio is currently based in Oklahoma City where she teaches painting, drawing and book arts at Oklahoma Contemporary, The Firehouse Art Center, and Francis Tuttle Institute for Technology.
Sylvie's paintings are informed by transitions; the last days of fall when the leaves barely hang on to the trees, the moment of reaching a hand out to give or receive, the passageways and thresholds that mark our lives as we navigate aging. She paints moments that serve as turning points, capturing the implied possibility that something is about to happen. She is particularly interested in images that possess a straightforward power to convey the intimacy of the everyday. Through painting, she contemplates grief — from personal to collective, quotidian to life- altering. The tension between the inevitability of change and the permanence of an image are at the focus of her work. The practice of painting allows her to compose eulogies to each passing day—memorializing people, places, and things.
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Sylvie’s work was included in our Spring 2023 Group Exhibition, on view February 2 through April 23, 2023.
