Chordata Studio

liz — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:35:03 +0000

Hoping to see you here and hear you here and feel you here...

MAY 2007/ANODYNE 2 LET THE EARTH REBLOOM AGAIN

liz — Thu, 03 May 2007 00:31:09 +0000

Greetings Friends

We've been rebuilding, reconstituting, ruminating and are still here ...think of that !

Wind whips across the desert in the spring. Coachella has come and gone with Arcade Fire blowing strong as heat and wind.

In the next few weeks, expect a new email newsletter for all you subscribers with NEWS and links beginning to be added and so on...all of our friends are up to some exciting things and want to update that as well as what's going on at the studio...Big Noise is what, along with other things...a restless spirit like the wind.

Anodyne 2 Studio in Pinyon Pines

liz — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:34:13 +0000

ANODYNE 2 Angel Portrait Commission Project

liz — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:18:58 +0000

Summer Doldrums Refresher Party

liz — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 02:32:17 +0000

Amidst Fire and Road Closures and other forces of nature, we partied on. Here are some pictures from the evening featuring Richard Meyers' paintings including a carpet of paintings up to the front entry of the building. There'll be some before and after pictures coming so stay tuned but thanks beyond thanks to Randy and Ryan, KarinAnje, RIchard , Sy, and many other brave souls who put the building back together again !

Carpet of Paintings/RIchard Meyers/8/12/06

Detail/Painting Installation/Richard Meyers

DJ Mile Bentzien and Carolyn Lair at Doldrums party.

Kimberly and Melissa at Doldrums Party

Pictures of the Studio Workshop

liz — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 03:00:37 +0000

Studio Main Space in process of being painted.

Side View of Studio Workshop

Midsummer Doldrums Party/Wrecks, Rejects,Failures and more Paintings by Richard Meyers

liz — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 02:53:36 +0000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 26,2006
CONTACT: Liz Gilbert 760 349 9720 , 760 969 3354 FOR: more information interviews with the artist, additional images.
www.anodyne2art.com
anodyne2@gmail.com

ANODYNE 2 SHOWS WRECKS, REJECTS, AND FAILURES/PAINTINGS BY RICHARD MEYERS AND MORE IN A MIDSUMMER DOLDRUMS REFRESHER PARTY ON AUGUST 12 ,AT
THE STUDIO IN PINYON PINES.

All of us ,as children, have painted , drawn, sung a song, dreamed a daydream…Most of us can’t pinpoint when we stopped doing these things, but it seems to happen when we get the message that the creative part of ourselves, the creative thought process, is not the “real” world of business, commerce, making a living , and growing up.

Exceptional desert painter, Richard Meyers, began painting in his teens . He was growing up in Riverside during the tumultuous 60’s and had never seen a painting, let alone a working artist of any kind.
He was drawn to a paint store called Standard Brands and one day went in and bought some paint. He went back to his garage room and painted his first painting. The experience was an epiphany for Meyers- He realized it was his calling. He had been a troubled and self destructive teen to this point and painting became the emotional outlet and disciplined focus that gave meaning and substance to his life. His painting is all about humanity and human emotion.

Meyers feels that art is the clearest and most sophisticated way we have to communicate emotional honesty. While there is an overwhelming human need for this, his observation is that we have lost much of our humanity because contemporary society seems to be primarily dedicated to the pursuit of money and is based on consumption. The arts then become a commodity and the artist is marginalized and often used in the gallery system and art “industry.” Meyers also thinks that the quality of time we once had …the kind of time where kids could sit and listen to their grandparent’s stories, stories were passed on, linkages made…time now too is regimented. How does a child growing up today, where arts are often not even in the school curriculum, make sense of the world, emotion and perhaps non conformity and being different ? The dislocation of families is a huge problem and, worldwide,there are more refugees and victims of war torn environments than ever before. . Unesco, in the results of a global survey, identified rootlessness as the number one problem culturally in the world today.

Meyers will be showing “Wrecks, Rejects, and Failures “ paintings (and other works) at anodyne 2’s Pinyon Pines big studio building. It is unusual for a painter to expose publicly this aspect of the work, but these paintings are often even more beautiful, weathered as they are by the desert sun and the elements. They are directly illustrative of what a painter’s life is all about.
These will be sold with part of the proceeds going towards a plan for the studio building to become an unstructured creative mentoring environment with an emphasis on teens. It could be a multiuse arts facility including a recording studio and is part of Liz Gilbert/Anodyne 2 ‘s push to create a focal point in the desert for contemporary arts . Gilbert feels that part of the problem in the desert is that there’s no clearly visible arts community because there is , for example, no center incorporating studios and artist run spaces.
Meyers will be working with local teens to create an ambient space in the building and there will be a collaborative art project during the party. At Anodyne 2’s Desert Movers and Shakers Palm Desert event in March, Meyers set up a collaborative painting project on the subject of WAR that many visitors collectively painted. This will be on display as well.