Lisa Rose Myers

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Lisa Rose Myers is a Port Severn and Toronto-based artist.[1] Myers is of Anishinaabe ancestry, and has background growing up on a farm and working as a cook, all of which has influenced her artwork.[2] Myers is known for her work with storytelling, indigenous culture, hospitality, mapping, and kinesthetic experience.[3]

Education and career[]

Myers is an assistant professor at York University.

Between 1992 and 2011, Myers received education from OCAD University, and Stratford Chefs School.[4]

Works[]

Myers has contributed writing to the OCAD university project "Walking With Artists", a small collection of reflections on walking practices by Canadian artists. She describes an 11-day walk she took following the path of her maternal grandfather's journey escaping his boarding school. In this walk Myers' grandfather survived on wild blueberries and reconnected with his indigenous heritage.[5] This walk serves as the foundation for an ongoing series of works using blueberry pigments, titled Blueprints for a Long Walk.[6]

One segment of Blueprints for a Long Walk, Blueprints (2012-15) is a set of four serigraphs, using blueberry ink, depicting a map of the area covered in Myers' walk. The first three prints represent the land, the water, and the train tracks individually, and the fourth depicts all three layers together.[3]

Blueprints for a Long Walk also includes several works involving wood spoons. Two video artworks are featured on MAP Magazine: stop motion animation And From Then On we Lived on Blueberries for About a Week (2013), and Blueberry Spoons (2010).[6]Additionally, in her exhibition Where a Heart Started at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Myers invited visitors to eat provided berries using small wood spoons, staining each spoon in the process. Myers used these resulting stained spoons in future works.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Artist-in-Residence - Lisa Myers". Art Gallery of Ontario. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  2. ^ "Picturing the Americas: Land as Resource". Art Gallery of Ontario. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  3. ^ a b Wilson-Sanchez, Maya (2016-09-01). "Blueprints". The Senses and Society. 11 (3): 357–362. doi:10.1080/17458927.2016.1212475. ISSN 1745-8927. S2CID 218835374.
  4. ^ Myers, Lisa. Curriculum vitae. https://img-cache.oppcdn.com/fixed/30350/assets/xzxkQl3bEKFbQAOd.pdf.
  5. ^ Kisin, Eugenia; Morrell, Amish (2014). "Walking with Artists". C: International Contemporary Art. 121: 42–50. ISSN 1480-5472.
  6. ^ a b "and from then on we lived on blueberries for about a week". MAP Magazine. 2013-05-07. Retrieved 2020-04-26.


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