The multidisciplinary artist founded a home studio in her back yard in Brookside Estates to work on her paper and fabric base art designs.
When the Columbus artist Andrea Myers needed a room to create her great, lively and credible patterned works in fabric and paper, she did not look any further as her garden.
In 2021, Myers and her husband Sven hired a contractor to build a special art studio behind the house, which they share with their 15-year-old daughter in the Brookside Estates district in the northwest of Columbus.
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“I am on the right in my house and yet when I get out of here, it is as if I won't be in my house anymore,” says Myers. “I am generally left alone.”
Until the construction of the new studio, Myers worked in a guest room in her house, where she has lived with her family since 2018. It was not ideal, and a commission for working with a measurement of 9 x 26 foot meant that she explored the opportunity to build a room to fit her large -scale pieces. “I only maximized this room,” says Myers about her former bedroom work area.
Andrea Myers' Backyard Art Studio Setup
Light flows through the front windows of the Backyard Studio, where it works about 40 hours a week. Inside, Myers has the tools of her trade, including a large table with flat files in which fabric accommodation and other materials are used for your art. The work there begins for your fabric pieces.
“It's a kind of crazy station,” she says. “I only work in stacks, and then I will iron and cut [fabric] Be in strip and sometimes organized and sometimes just pull it by chance. ”
On the other side of the room, two sewing machines sit next to each other. On the big back wall, a current work in the works, on the parts of which must be accessed by ladders that are kept nearby. “I often have the feeling that there is a little struggle with the material,” says Myers, who is represented by Brandt Gallery and recently completed a scholarship in Japan.
But Myers' studio on site is a clear victory for the artist. “I had an era of the time in the basement studio, and that's just not great,” she says. “This is ideal.”
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