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Art NOW presents Sandra Meigs
Nature Through Narrative
Noon, September 27, 2019
University Recital Hall
Free admission, everyone welcome!

For over 35 years Sandra Meigs has created vivid, immersive and enigmatic paintings that combine complex narratives with comic elements.  She derives the content of her work from her own personal experiences and develops these to create visual metaphors related to the psyche.

Through her work, Meigs wants the viewer to feel richly engaged, jubilant, and most of all, transported to an imaginary universe. 

Meigs is dedicated to painting and to the possibilities of enchantment that painting presents through colour and form. She believes that the very authenticity of one’s experience offers proof that what is imagined when looking at a painting is as real as anything else that one experiences in the world. She has also inter-woven sculpture, film, sound, and other media in her works.

Born in Baltimore in 1953, Meigs studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (B.F.A. 1975) and Dalhousie University (M.A. 1980).  She has lived and worked in Canada since 1973.  Recently retired, Sandra Meigs has been a dedicated teacher at the University of Victoria for 24 years and has mentored hundreds of visual art students throughout her professorship. She now resides in Hamilton, Ontario. Her solo exhibition, Terre Verte, opens at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery on September 28 at 8 pm, and is on view until November 17, 2019.