Photographs by Bernard Meyers and scientific illustrations by David Wheeler on exhibit at UNE
The University of New England is hosting an exhibition of photographs by UNE faculty member and Maine photographer Bernard C. Meyers and detailed scientific illustrations by New York artist David Wheeler.
Bernard Meyers
Meyers is recognized internationally as a master printer. His photographs are held in public, private, and corporate collections nationwide. His pursuit of beauty and uncompromising craft through fine art photography has been an unwavering life-long passion.
Meyers states, “For as long as I’ve lived in Maine, I have been drawn to the sanctity of island life, the shore, what lies between the tidal edges, the less often walked and the quiet and reflective places. Here I venture into other worlds, unique, eternal, and forever changing. In these worlds, I search for images beyond the apparent reality. I work at a visual ambiguity where scale is unknown; texture becomes both massive and minute.”
Meyers teaches photography at the University of New England and the University of Southern Maine. In addition to his fine art pursuits, he works as a commercial photographer specializing in architecture, environmental portraits and art reproduction. His work can be viewed at www.meyersphoto.com and aureolephotography.com.
His works are on display in Stella Maris Hall on the University of New England’s Biddeford campus. The exhibition runs through November 2, 2008, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily.
David Wheeler
Wheeler’s life-long interest in natural history fuels his work as an artist, science illustrator and museum model maker. He has made life-sized dinosaur reproductions for the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the Osaka Museum of Natural History in Japan.
Wheeler lives in New York state and has an M.F.A. from Tufts University and a B.F.A. in art education from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. He teaches art and freshwater and ocean ecology at the State University of New York’s Empire State College; art and aesthetic theory for creative art theory for creative art therapy majors at Russell Sage College in Troy, NY; 3D design and sculpture at the Sage College of Albany, NY; and art history at the Pratt Institute Extension Center Campus at Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, NY.
His art work is on display in the Campus Center of the University of New England’s Biddeford campus. The exhibition also runs through Nov. 2, 2008, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily.
Both exhibitions are free and open to the public.