2008 Woodie Awards
Hunt Gallery: Artist to present work, video pieces Oct. 13
By: Deena Watts
Issue date: 10/12/06 Section: LifeStyle
Internationally-established video artist and photographer Jessika Miekeley scanned still images of water in her work "Pool." The piece is meant to convey a sense of what it would feel like to drown in an ocean.
Miekeley's "Sky" envelops the idea of Pluto by using a ball of lint as a misrepresentation of a cosmic orb to represent the extreme and simplistic misconceptions that can arise with each day.
Miekeley, born in Berlin, recently moved to St. Louis. She will be the next artist to present her work at Webster University's Cecille R. Hunt Gallery in the art building Oct. 13. This show will be Miekeley's first solo exhibit in St. Louis.
The display will include three TVs displaying her video art. A DVD will play Miekeley's captured still images she scanned to create movement. The movement is painstakingly slow at times. She moved to each image at various angles.
Dana Turkovic, the art gallery coordinator, said the photos show simplicity and a different take on space and time.
"(Miekeley) goes through a lot of layering through reproduction with her pieces," Turkovic said. "She creates time where time has essentially stopped. She finds very basic objects and she creates these photograms, which are essentially a black and white, kind of grayscale image. She'll take images like a cotton ball or things like that and she'll really just zoom in with her camera."
After moving from Berlin, Miekeley received her master's from Goldsmiths College in London in 2002 and has been involved in various group exhibitions, including Park 4 DTV in Amsterdam in 2002, and A Beautiful Game in New York in 2006. She was most recently included in Flatfiles, a 2006 collection of emerging artists' work compiled by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.
Turkovic said she was impressed with Miekeley's art after she visited the artist's studio in St. Louis. Turkovic said Miekeley will benefit from this exhibit because she will be showing work that has not yet been displayed at any other venue.
Miekeley's "Sky" envelops the idea of Pluto by using a ball of lint as a misrepresentation of a cosmic orb to represent the extreme and simplistic misconceptions that can arise with each day.
Miekeley, born in Berlin, recently moved to St. Louis. She will be the next artist to present her work at Webster University's Cecille R. Hunt Gallery in the art building Oct. 13. This show will be Miekeley's first solo exhibit in St. Louis.
The display will include three TVs displaying her video art. A DVD will play Miekeley's captured still images she scanned to create movement. The movement is painstakingly slow at times. She moved to each image at various angles.
Dana Turkovic, the art gallery coordinator, said the photos show simplicity and a different take on space and time.
"(Miekeley) goes through a lot of layering through reproduction with her pieces," Turkovic said. "She creates time where time has essentially stopped. She finds very basic objects and she creates these photograms, which are essentially a black and white, kind of grayscale image. She'll take images like a cotton ball or things like that and she'll really just zoom in with her camera."
After moving from Berlin, Miekeley received her master's from Goldsmiths College in London in 2002 and has been involved in various group exhibitions, including Park 4 DTV in Amsterdam in 2002, and A Beautiful Game in New York in 2006. She was most recently included in Flatfiles, a 2006 collection of emerging artists' work compiled by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.
Turkovic said she was impressed with Miekeley's art after she visited the artist's studio in St. Louis. Turkovic said Miekeley will benefit from this exhibit because she will be showing work that has not yet been displayed at any other venue.
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