MARLBORO — Marlboro College's Snyder Center for the Visual Arts will host The Local, a series of photographs by Greenfield, Mass.-based photographer Nick Meyer. The series will be exhibited in the Snyder Gallery through Nov. 15, with an artist's talk on Nov. 8, and is free and open to the public.
Meyer's images in The Local serve as a poignant portrait of the Greenfield community he lives in, imaging the economic insecurity and opioid abuse that affect the lives of its locals, as well as the beauty of the area.
Meyer writes, “In my life I have seen houses and shops erected, razed, burnt and rebuilt; but for all that trouble the feeling of stasis still looms. The landscape is shifting, not changing just shifting, stuck in its own history but touched by the world passing through.”
The Snyder Gallery is the newest of Marlboro College's exhibit spaces, and is integral to the art faculty's efforts to provide more public and accessible art programming for the local community.
On Nov. 8, at 5 p.m., Meyer will be joined by Marlboro College professor of sociology Jennifer Girouard for an artist's talk and interdisciplinary discussion of his work.
Meyer earned his BFA at Massachusetts College of Art and his MFA from California College of the Arts. He is the recipient of the Pace Gallery Award and the Barclay Simpson Prize, and his work has been shown internationally and is included in numerous private collections. His third book of photographs, The Local, will be published in the fall of 2020.