Lyons Wier • Ortt Gallery is pleased to announce Marking Time, a two-person exhibition featuring Miriam Cabessa and Linn Meyers.

Both artists “mark time” through disciplined movements, using their bodies as fine-tuned instruments. Upon first glance the efforts recall computer-generated topographies or technological algorithms. Further investigations evidence the hand of the artist. Both artists embrace the slow pace that is demanded when creating their works, resulting in paintings that honor the passage of a confined moment in time.

Through continuous gesture and controlled breathing Miriam Cabessa employs a subtractive method of moving paint. By moving her body like a machine, she slowly drags manipulated fabric over the linen surface, resulting in a rhythmic pattern of translucent peaks and dips. The process of her paintings is a performance that encapsulates her slow, meditative movements.

Miriam Cabessa graduated Ha’Midrasha College of Art, Ramat-Ha’Sharon, Israel. She has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions in the US and Israel. Solo shows include the Tel Aviv Museum in 1995, represented Israel in the 1997 Venice Biennale, and exhibited at the American Jewish Museum in Pittsburgh in 2007. Her work is in the collections of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv Museum, and Haifa Museum of Modern Art. Born in Casablanca, Morocco, she moved to Israel with her family when she was three years old. She currently lives and works in New York.

Linn Meyers makes elegant line drawings and paintings using colored ink and paint on Mylar. Upon close inspection the work reveals itself to be a collection of marks, each following the previous line. Variations or unplanned imperfections in the lines generate images that reference the individual moments spent in the creation of the drawings themselves.

Linn Meyers received her BFA from The Cooper Union in NYC and her MFA from the California College of the Arts. She is the recipient of a Pollack-Krasner Grant and her work has been shown widely throughout the US in museum and gallery exhibitions. Her work is in the permanent collections of The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC, The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC, the Frick Art and Historical Center in Pittsburgh, and the New Britain Museum in Connecticut. She was born and resides in Washington, D.C.