Westing: Jason Meyer Sculptures 1999-2012

Taking its title from an old word meaning westerly progress, Westing presents an early-career survey of Jason Meyer's sculpture. Utilizing materials that shift between human-made and organic, Meyer's sculptures explore Western culture's relationship to the natural world. Antler, hide, and soil succumb to physical abstraction, rigid structure, and geometry while steel, electrical wire, and plastic are manipulated into organic forms. Meyer's works examine our strange position among a world that we simultaneously study, define, deny, destroy, protect, and romanticize.