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Hoiying Megan Lam
Most likely to be printing before class
Megan Lam is a conceptual multimedia artist whose work strives to engage audience with immersive sensory experience. She utilizes the flexibility and contrast of lights and shadows, along with media such as photography, videography and installation to create one-of-a-kind pieces.
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Megan typically establishes light and beautifully bright colours isolated in a sea of black. Her images are quiet, peaceful, and uniquely pacifying. She creates a beautiful relationship between the audience and the work that she makes. There is a feeling of intimacy, as though you are looking through her camera lens and are being sucked into the moment. When I gaze into each work, all noises around me go mute and time slows down. It’s incredible.
Based on her art, I can infer that Megan is a romantic that prefers peace and quiet. To her, there is no need to shake the earth with her presence. Instead, she shows you the silent beauty in things we often take for granted. I appreciated her establishing a place of peace in each show I have been a part of with her. I cannot wait to see what she accomplishes after undergrad.
Lily Gates
Interpretation, 2023 Prints
Bus Stop, 2023 Print and string lights
I remember the time you installed that hanging bus stop in Odegaard library and I was completely amazed by the way you can take something that is simple and ordinary and make it tell a story, evoke a certain mood thats undeniably captivating. The way that you play with scale has always been something I’ve really admired, like your larger than life “Black Hole” sculptural piece that was so big you could climb into it! Which I of course did try, and I was completely enveloped within your art, literally and metaphorically. Despite the fact that you’re a photo-media major, your works go so much more beyond being prints hanging on white walls. All of your works have really taken such thought and time to execute and it shows in the result. Im genuinely so excited to hopefully see you expand and continue to build such a cool and diverse body of art.
PATRICK SKEFFINGTON
