Utilizing geometric forms, hardware, and synthetic materials, Colorado-based artist Susan Meyer has installed a series of ceiling mounted abstract sculptures to create a fantastical yet looming sci-fi environment.  In Together, Meyer employs the techniques of map-making and modeling to create Modernist-inspired structures that explore the existing tensions between the communal and individual.  The glistening vibrant sculptures assume a singular landscape that overwhelms the gallery, creating an alternative, insular world.  Drawing on a variety of philosophical views on notions of communal living ranging from those of Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus artists to Buckminster Fuller to the inhabitants of Colorado's commune, Drop City, Meyer juxtaposes the idealism expressed through geometric form with the stark reality of human behavior.  Indeed, her miniscule inhabitants reflect a range of attitudes and emotions that appear at odds with the utopic idealism long associated with Modernist endeavors.

A video component remixes the last scene from THX 1138, the George Lucas film.  In the original version, the main character escapes the "safe" underground civilization and emerges to the open earth, giant sun blazing behind him.  The remixed version repeats and reverses the sequence; the tiny figure emerges and retreates endlessly, enduring a Sisyphean existence.

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