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Greely Myatt's Flying Solo installation entitled "Cloud" is derived from speaking balloons found in comics, and its size is relative to the physical space of the interior airport architecture. The separate balloons are meant to suggest a chorus of voices in unison. "Cloud" is also an obvious reference to flight. With its simple, childlike qualities, it is meant to be playful and inspire joy in its viewers.
Myatt is a professor of fine arts at the University of Memphis in Memphis, TN, where he has lived and worked for more than 10 years. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS. He is represented by the David Lusk Gallery in Memphis, and the Sandler Hudson Gallery in Atlanta, GA. Some of his recent installations include "Cleave" at the Art Museum of The University of Memphis and "Baseball Diamond/bats and birds/ poles and pyramids" at Redbird Stadium in Memphis. In 1996, Myatt received a Tennessee Arts Commission award for the creation of a permanent public sculpture at Tennessee’s North Carolina interstate welcome center on I-40. |
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