Amy Myers’s work lives at the intersection of structure and intimacy. Rooted in physics—specifically its principles of constant transformation and recombination—her art draws from lessons absorbed early on, watching her father, a particle physicist, at work. From this foundation, Myers has developed a practice that balances disciplined effort with genuine play. Each drawing is dominated by a single, intricate form, built from innumerable small, carefully rendered components assembled with exacting care. The resulting symmetry is striking, and the forms seem to crackle with energy. They call to mind familiar images—spaceships, ghostly matter, erotic anatomy, mandalas—yet they ultimately resist fixed interpretation, existing instead as expressions of the artist’s own internal, personal physics.
Her collections include the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY The Kleefeld Museum of Art, California State University, Long Beach, CA, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS, Perez Art Museum, PAMM, Miami FL, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT, American Express Corporate Collection The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, and the Wayne State University Art Collection, Detroit, MI.