Title: It’s Immaterial

Artist: Derek Meier
Exhibition Dates: November 14 - January 4, 2026
Opening Reception: Sunday, November 23rd // 1pm - 3pm

ARTIST STATEMENT
My work focuses on material exchange, immediacy, aesthetic dialogue and invented territories.
Every image, whether objective or nonobjective, is founded on deconstructed historical, cultural, and religious paradigms.  These smashed realities are then reformed into a singular home.  Each painting, drawing, and analog collage is a further examination of this elseworld and its physical and cultural constructs.  I further maneuver these spaces with derelict icons, mixed media elements and soft narration as these languages consolidate. ​Negotiating the terms of this reality allows me to do the same within my own.

BIOGRAPHY
Derek Meier is a painter and mixed media artist based in St. Paul, MN, where he works with artists with disabilities as a Visual Arts Designated Coordinator at Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts (St. Paul, MN).  Meier received a BFA with a focus in Studio Painting from the University of South Dakota.  Notable collections include the Minnesota Museum of American Art and the University of South Dakota’s President’s Collection.