AT THE VIOLET HOUR
ROLE: Photo, Press Release
ARTIST: Stefan Meier
GALLERY: Free Parking
July is jubilee, celebrating
nature’s vigor and tender independence, mixing
explosive stars and singing tears.
With lidless eyes, we admire her.
In At a Violet Hour, Stefan Meier invites friends to participate in a visual dialogue at Free Parking gallery in the LA Arts District. Inspired by poem, ‘The Wasteland’ by T.S. Eliot, Meier paints fragmented stanzas, casting mystic divinations redolent of the arcana cards of a tarot deck. A power cord dangled over a ferrari-red stallion. A yellow astral clapping over the Belladonna. The hyacinth girl and the wolf. Through free association, Meier intends to make sense of cultural data points, therein gifting us a tool for self-reflection, guidance and personal growth. Bold marker graphics overlay near-photographic airbrushed images, blending soft sensuality with urgent exclamations. Reminiscent of 80’s Playboy ads and vintage DIY catalogs, the provocation of these pieces lie in the playful interplay of textures, anachronisms and words. As an explorer of human holism, Meier collects and transmutes ruins of the wasteland, feeding a little life at the violet hour.
