Miranda Maher: The Milky Way (Folded)—Fish
“Fish” is from the series "The Milky Way (Folded) — The Very Old and Very Young”
“THE MILKY WAY (FOLDED) — THE VERY OLD AND VERY YOUNG” SERIES:
This still-in-process series makes a simple combination referenced in the title to stretch our vision to feel the immense age of the stars and the blink-of-an-eye life of things here on Earth. The series uses white ink painted tracings from a type of historical celestial chart that represented the Milky Way cut into thirds to better show it in detail. This is overlaid with clustered images from vintage illustrations re-printed on archival washi paper, cut and mounted on the handmade Japanese paper support. Approx. 24×44″
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.
