Landry McMeans

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Bio:

Landry McMeans is a sixth generation Texan with a BA in Communication Design From Texas State University. A songwriter and steel guitar player, she is a full time musician who tours the country with her band the Lonesome Heroes.

Landry works with reclaimed cardboard and acrylic paint to create abstract reliefs and landscapes of the American West. Her work is currently hanging in Austin City Hall and the Austin Bergstrom International Airport.

Her latest piece has been commissioned by the Viva Big Bend Festival in Marfa, Texas to be used as the commemorative poster for the 2012 festival.

Artist Statement:

Throughout my studies at Texas State University I became fascinated with the use of cardboard as a medium. The long hours I spent staring at a computer screen created a need to find real world textures and materials that defy the digital perfection and redundancy that Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator create. Cardboard offered me a readily accessible material that I could find everywhere. The variation in textures and wear within individual pieces of cardboard seemed limitless, and the ability to shape art out of an overlooked everyday material was perfect.

After creating a number of pieces in my new medium, I came to learn about Picasso’s early use of cardboard. Further investigation led me to the relief work of Frank Stella. I was drawn by Stella’s use of a limited color pallet, and simple lines to create images. However, it was not until my extensive travels through the West with my band that I found the pallet and style that called to me.

Everywhere we travelled I found forgotten treasures of American history, whether it be an out of fashion western pearl snap shirt with a southwestern color pallet and designs, or a forgotten group of paint-by-number pieces at a yard sale. The landscapes and the color pallet of the west began to invade my thoughts.

Mountain ranges became a group of simple lines and colors. A flower at sunset became a play of light on shapes. I began to create my own paint-by-number pieces by reducing the contours of the natural world into three-dimensional shapes of cardboard.

Contact:

(512) 573 6829

landry85@gmail.com

ART: www.landry.mosaicglobe.com

MUSIC: www.thelonesomeheroes.com

BUY: www.etsy.com/people/landrymcmeans

Interview with Austin PBS Affiliate KLRU during 2011 E.A.S.T. Studio Tour.

Landry McMeans from KLRU Collective on Vimeo.

NOUVEAU WESTERN ART & MUSIC TOUR

May 21st - May 27th, 2012

Art Reception & Live Performance
Saturday, May 26th.
6pm-Midnight
@ The Echo Country Outpost
8pm Olentangy John
9pm Lonesome Heroes
10pm The Western States Motel

1770 Glendale Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90026
www.echocountryoutpost.com/