Miranda Maher: Big Little Tiny
“Big-Little-Tiny 1” from “Big Little Tiny” Series
“Big-Little-Tiny 2” from “Big Little Tiny” Series
“Big-Little-Tiny-Fish” from Big Little Tiny Series
BIG LITTLE TINY SERIES:
This series combines three ‘things’ of vastly different dimensions on sheets of 28×44” handmade paper: The Milky Way is brush-drawn in white ink across the sheet. Its particular form is drawn from a specific historical depiction. The Earth is presented through parts of historical maps or sky charts. The field created by both these things is inhabited by a genus of the tiny creatures that live here (a different one for each drawing).
Related to the unpacking of our human-centric valuations of “Infestations”, “Big-Little-Tiny” embraces the preciousness of these things: Some are too large for most humans to grasp, while others are dismissed as small and inconsequential.
28×44″ Ink and historical map and biological illustration elements on handmade Japanese paper.
Over the last 25 years, Miranda Maher has exhibited in university, non-profit and commercial gallery spaces in New York and throughout the US and internationally. Some venues that have shown her work: Wave Hill (Bronx), The Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, White Columns, The Drawing Center, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery and Pierogi’s Flat Files. She has also shown work at Kunstbunker (Nuremberg), Spaces (Cleveland), CEPA (Buffalo), Artetica (Rome), Yatoo (S. Korea), Staub (g*fzk!)(Zurich), the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Bronx Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Along with her exhibition work, she has editioned more than 10 artist’s books and was the Art Editor for the poetry journal Long News in the Short Century. Her artists books are distributed by Printed Matter in New York. Her work is represented in the Robert Schiffler Collection, as well as many university and museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art (Special Collections), Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Boston Museum and the Brooklyn Museum.
