My paintings and drawings explore personal history through the universal and the cyclical, the mythological and the contemporary. My work often reflects on the ideas of motherhood or femininity and its dualities. The body is reduced to a female archetype as the form is silhouetted and manipulated. Settings are domestic, wild, mundane, and fantastical, each opening into different parts of the psyche and identity. I work from imagination influenced by memory, feelings, symbols and nature. My practice is nocturnal, lending itself to subconscious dream and night scenes. Repetitive patterns and lines in mark making lead me to a slower, more reflective state.

Larysa Myers studied drawing and painting at Grand Central Academy and textile design at Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City and developed a love for classical drawing methods and pattern making. After leaving the city and moving to Beacon, NY she started a family and began a new body of work focusing on drawing. Recent exhibitions include “Second Nature” at Dinner Gallery, New York, NY (2024), “Aura” at Wilder Gallery, London (2023) “Paintings of Common Objects” at Fortnight Institute, New York, NY (2023), “Charta” on the Fortnight Institute Salon (2022), “I Walk Through Walls” on MePaintsMe (2022), “Night Scenes” at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY (2021), and “Soft Temple” at Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY (2019). Her work has been featured in Maake Magazine and ArtMaze Mag.

Interview in Make Magazine: https://www.maakemagazine.com/larysa-myers

Contact: larysamyers@gmail.com

Instagram: @larysamyers