Claudia Meyer

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Claudia Meyer

Claudia Meyer was born in Switzerland in 1961 and has lived and worked in Paris and Luzern as an independent artist since 1989.She trained as a graphic designer at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Luzern from 1977 to 1982. She then spent a year in Stuttgart, Germany where she worked as a graphic artist and made the acquaintance of Anton Stankowski, in whose studio she was able to work with. She then moved to New York in 1986 and continued her studies at the School of Visual Art and the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she graduated in textil design. She received numerous prizes for her work during this period, which explored the border between design and painting. After her return to Europe in 1989 she devoted herself, alongside commissions, to painting and the creation of objets d’art. Since then her work has regularly been exhibited in galleries both in Europe,Japan and the United States.

Claudia Meyer’s œuvre is situated in the highly exciting field of tension between the objective and abstract conceptions of painting. Her work, from the early paintings of the late 1980s right up to her latest works, reveals her efforts to use everyday experiences as a basis for art and find a visual language that can reflect these rapidly changing times esthetically through both form and content. Contrary to the representatives of classical modernism, her concern is to impart a concept of art that incorporates not only the freedom of the artist, but also the freedom of the subject receiving the work. Such esthetic considerations allow the formal structure of a work, which is not traditionally called into question, to take on quite different dimensions, as can be seen particularly from her three-dimensional artwork. She is concerned about making the free reception of a work, a hitherto neglected artistic moment, an integral part of her work. Hence the work of art becomes a mirror not only of herself and society, but also of the attentive viewer of her work.

Meyer’s work can be found in several prestigious Art Galleries, such as:

And in Private and Public collections all over the Globe.