A painter’s quest to bridge the material and spiritual
This week we welcome Richard Meyer, a figurative painter based in Queens. Meyer’s work is rooted in the tradition of social realism, and New York City’s multicultural landscape is the source of his inspiration.
His works are densely populated with both keenly observed figures and symbolic situations. He never sits in judgment, but rather celebrates diversity and looks with empathy on the full pageant of humanity.
Meyer says, “I’m an artist living in Astoria since 1987, and in NYC since graduating from SUNY in 1975. I spent 25 years as a NYC Special Education Teacher and am now devoting my retirement to art making.
My paintings are in a social realism genre with spiritual resonances. The work is based on my experience of urban life filtered through inner states. I hope to find a unity of the material and the spiritual.”
See more of Meyer’s work on his website and Instagram.
