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Jeremy Mayer
 
 
About the Artist

I disassemble typewriters and then reassemble them into full-scale human figures, sometimes encasing them in clear casting resin. I do not solder, weld, or glue; the process is entirely cold, mechanical assembly. I also do charcoal drawings based on ideas about biotechnology and nanotechnology.
I'm interested in time spent and the future. I use CAD and 3D programs to do the studies of my drawings (backwards, I know), which in turn are studies for sculptures that I have yet to make.
The typewriter pieces take about 1200 hours for a full-scale human figure.


Photo credits to Todd LeVeck at www.epicphotojournalism.com
and Kate and Keith Watts, Rhino Studios, Issaquah, WA

 
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self-portrait 0

2001
60x40

self-portrait 0
Charcoal on paper

bust II

2004
45x50x30

Made from typewriter parts. All cold reassembly. No soldering, gluing, or welding.

Nude 0

1995
Typewriter parts
90x180x90

Typewriter parts

Nude III (Olympia)

2007
Typewriter parts
94x121x121

Nude III (Olympia)
No soldering, welding, or gluing. All cold reassembly.

Nude III (Olympia)

2007
Typewriter parts
94x121x121

Nude III (Olympia)
Made entirely from typewriter parts. Recently completed for exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art. Short video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8F3gLl_EUU

Nude II

2001
Typewriter parts
120x120x37

Nude II
Made entirely from typewriter parts.

Nude III (detail)

2007
Typewriter parts
94x121x121

Nude III (detail)
Made entirely from typewriter parts. Short video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8F3gLl_EUU

Nude III (Olympia)

2007
Typewriter parts
94x121x121

Nude III (Olympia)
Made entirely from typewriter parts. Short video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8F3gLl_EUU

Nude II

2001
Typewriter parts
120x120x37

Nude II
Made entirely from typewriter parts.

Nude II and Nude III

2007
Typewriter parts
120x120x37

Nude II and Nude III
Made entirely from typewriter parts. On display at the Nevada Museum of Art.
 
Education and biography
I have no formal art education.

A/Part: Constructions of Jeremy Mayer
Nevada Museum of Art- Reno, NV
November, 2007

remoteviewing3-
Squaw Valley, CA
October, 2006

New Work- Jeremy Mayer
Sierra Nevada College- Incline Village, NV
December, 2005
 
Future shows
Device Gallery- Summer '09
http://www.devicegallery.com
 
Website:  www.jeremymayer.com
 
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