Mother Water

I am grateful to Accola Griefen Gallery for including me in their summer 2021 online exhibition Mother Water which is dedicated to the forever-great Mary Beth Edelson (1933-2021). In addition to Edelson (and me), the show also includes terrific work by Sandra Ramos, Nancy Cohen, Alicia Smith, Andrea Chung, Merritt Johnson, Mikayla Patton, and Jane Swavely. My video – Water in the Desert 122F – is pictured as the top image above and Mary Beth Edelson’s Woman Rising / Sea is the second image.

Monument Public Address System Teachable Moment exhibit

I’m excited that my project, Monument Public Address System, was part of the Teachable Moment exhibit, curated by Mike Calway-Fagen and presented by Stove Works in Chattanooga, TN, from Dec. 18, 2020 until March 27, 2021. There are some excellent people in the show with me including Alejandro Acierto and Rotem Tamir. Thank you Mike Calway-Fagen! https://www.stoveworks.org/teachable-moment

Microscope Gallery’s Event Series Aug 31-Sept 3, 2020.

I am thrilled to have a solo screening of nine of my videos as part of Microscope Gallery’s event series Aug 31-Sept 3, 2020. Thank you Andrea Monti and Elle Burchill. Microscope is the best!!

Monday August 31 – Thursday September 3, 2020, 10:30pm PT
Meredith Drum
Search for Delicious
Q&A with the artist via live chat at 8:45pm ET

https://microscopegallery.com/meredith-drum-search-for-delicious/

Governors Island Un-Earthed, Underwater New York

Excited to be a part of Governors Island Un-Earthed, Underwater New York’s Issue Number 16. My contribution People of the Desert 122°F meditates on the past and future of the miles of canals that thread through Phoenix and Tucson, AZ. The largest pre-Columbian irrigation system in North America, the canals were first engineered 2000 years ago by the ancestral Sonoran Desert people. This Native history was destroyed by the construction of the settler-colonial metropolis. Now an urban space of asphalt and concrete, this valley is ill-prepared for the heat of the near future. The summer now reaches 122°F. At 130°, what happens to the city’s vulnerable people, plants, and animals? Adaptation or abandonment?

New Media Caucus Panel

Looking forward to being a part of a New Media Caucus panel focused on AR and VR at CAA 2020 in Chicago. Organized by Rachel Clare and Tom Burtonwood, the panel’s title is Dematerialization of the Art Experience and featured some terrific artists – I was honored to be among them.

Happy to once again support the Film-makers Coop by donating to their annual auction.

A framed print of a still from my new animation Medusa Wigs. Auction end Nov 18th. Wonderful to be in the company of work by Zoe Beloff, Mary Billyou, Janie Geiser, Jonas Mekas, Kiki Smith and many others.