The Nude in the 21st Century

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Lydia Larson



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Joan Masat



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Marcus Miers



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Lisa Qualls



Nick Reszetar



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Robert Schlegel



Charles Schweigert



Gregory Siler



Gregory Siler



Teri Starkweather



Tara Sweeney



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Noel Thomas



Penelope Treat



Edward Trover



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Marcus Miers
(Columbia, MO)

Examination of Self Portrait, Pastel, 43"x24"

My work is the product of a constant search for ways to present pictorial reality and avenues to articulate modes of human experience and being. I study and practice traditional representational art in tandem with modern abstract painting to construct my images. The way I view the intersection of these two arenas of image making manifests itself in the act of representing the human figure in constructed geometric abstractions, echoing similar constructions from modern figure painters. The product of operating in the arena of representational art is a subjective experience concerning the Diaspora from the Scene to the Seen to the Image, allowing the image to be a physical culmination of the artist's own conceits and limitations. With this mode of thought, I create pictures in search for material reality that this Diaspora produces, allowing for a truer understanding and experience for the viewer concerning what lies within the image itself. What the image is composed of are binaries of color, flatness, shape, and philosophies, giving the figure an atmosphere of tension and opposition as well as a cohesion by virtue of existing in a unified picture plane. These themes of symbiotic binary relationships typify my existence, and I believe, human experience as well.

-Marcus Jon Miers


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