ILENE MEYER Paintings Drawings Perceptions

Ilene Meyer's oil paintings transport viewers through the mists of myths and creation to explore a unique world populated by fantastical creatures and imaginary landscapes -- all rendered with clarity and passion. As surreal as Pablo Picasso or Salvador Dali, as evocative as Georgia O'Keeffe, this gallery introduces SF and New Age afficionados to the first full-scale celebration of Meyer's work. Invoking themes of ecology, conservation, culture, and lost civilizations, Meyer's paintings pronounce that all existence is interconnected and that all souls are intertwined. A cultural sensation in Japan and the subject of numerous articles, interviews and even a documentary film, Meyer enchants with her bold, painterly style. Designed and edited by Cathy Fenner and Arnie Fenner, the creators of the Spectrum series, this is the first collection of Ilene Meyer paintings to be published in the U.S. Since we got the last copies in Underwood's inventory, we are pricing this below what most other dealers ask. And while their copies are used and have been read, these are as-new, unread file copies never before opened. Meyer (1939-2009) passed away while still at her peak of skills. We might have seen far more of her and she should be far better known. Her work is just amazing, which is why Underwood chose to publish her, an artist unknown to the majority of comics and sci-fi fans, but who well deserves to be seen and appreciated. From Wikipedia: At the age of seven she contributed work to a time capsule at Alki Point, Seattle. She made her career as an oil painter in the 1970s with her first solo exhibition in 1979. Her early work was based on the fruit and flowers she used as models, with real and imagined animals joining these as time progressed. Her work became popular in the fantasy art world, gracing the cover of books by James K. Morrow, Philip K. Dick, Marion Zimmer Bradley and other science fiction and fantasy authors. F.X. Schmid produced puzzles based on her paintings. She also became more popular in Japan than in her home country.