Rita Myers
Drifts, 2025
Digital photomontage, acrylic print
18 x 36"
Edition 1 of 10

Artist Statement
Drifts is part of the series called Terra Incognita which are landscape vistas composed of elements from ordinary, quotidian environments which burst their boundaries to evoke re-imagined natural phenomena.

Artist Bio
Rita Myers received her BA in 1969 from Douglass College, Rutgers University, and her MA from Hunter College, City University of New York, in 1974.

While in graduate school, Myers was one of a small cadre of artists who used video as a new tool in creating their performance pieces and installations. From 1975 to 1993, she created a significant body of video installations, large-scale, highly theatrical, and metaphorical environments. This work has been shown in many landmark exhibitions, including American Landscape Video: The Electronic Grove, Carnegie Museum of Art in 1988, and Video-Skulptur Retrospektiv und Aktuell 1963-1989, Kölnischer Kunstverein in Köln, Germany.

In 1995, Myers changed course entirely and embarked on a career in graphic design. She ran her own graphic design firm in Philadelphia from 2007 to 2019, serving clients ranging from non-profits to Fortune 500 companies.

In 2005, she returned to the fine arts, creating a photography series based on seasonal cycles in Wissahickon Park. Her recent work of photomontage distills her experiences of and within various landscapes.

Myers has received many awards, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, and the Jerome Foundation. In 1983, she was inducted into the Douglass Society for Distinguished Achievement.

She divides her time between Philadelphia, PA and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico with her wife, Bonnie Strahs.

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