Meredith Starr

Biography

Meredith Starr is a multi-disciplinary artist living in NY. She earned her BS in Studio Art from NYU, her MFA from LIU, and has completed two certificates in AR and VR at Harvestworks in New York City. Her work has recently been published in Art Seen: Curator’s Salon and will be featured in CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women in the spring of 2022. She has shown nationally and internationally, notably in Seoul, Tokyo, and New York. She completed her second Artist Residency in Motherhood during quarantine. She recently exhibited Plastic Swim at ATHICA (Athens Institute of Contemporary Art) in Georgia, Every Second Feels Like Theft as part of the NYC Poetry Festival on Governor’s Island in New York City, and selected work from Are You There? at Target Gallery in Alexandria, VA. Starr is also a full-time professor of visual arts at SUNY Suffolk County Community College, is the VP of Membership for the FATE (Foundations in Art Theory and Education) Organization, and is a mentor for the Artist/Mother Network. She collaborates with poet Sarah Kain Gutowski, former college roommate and photographer Dayna Leavitt, and her family. When she’s not in the studio you can find her on a run, pausing to photograph a sculptural arrangement of trash at the curb.

Artists Statement

Meredith Starr’s projects are attempts to reflect our own humanity back at us. She transforms the mundane ephemera she’s noticed–shapes of shadows that flicker on the bedroom wall in the morning, houseplants she nurtured or accidentally killed, plastic she and her family accumulated in a year, records of how she spent her time. The medium of her projects serves the subject matter. She simultaneously works in analog processes like cyanotype printing and contemporary technology like virtual and augmented reality, sometimes in conversation with each other. Her artworks are often metaphorical or invented landscapes with narratives that reveal relationships the body has to objects, others, and the earth. They are tactile, immersive, and often interactive.  Starr uses play and humor throughout her work to make subtle commentary about the state of our ecology, domesticity, and gender politics.