Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, Professor
Grommets are often overlooked. We fish rope through their eyes to tie down tarps. We ignore them as we draw our laces tight. Grommets puncture the material they protect. Myra is attracted to this irony, and to the grommet’s humble utility. Her recent work engages the formal tension between metal and felt and the interdependence of these materials toward new structural outcomes.
Myra explores facture as an idea, image and process, conceptualizing material conditions to construct fictions and portraits. Her technical methods are deliberate: tools and force displace the metal; residual marks document the process. The trace is conversant with the staged formal outcome. Together, they reflect ideas about how and why we build things.
