Kathryn Myers –  Fulbright Regional Scholar and Artist
Displays her paintings at Park Street Mews

“My paintings over the past decade have grown out of an immersion in the art, culture and religious traditions of India. Through depictions of figures in both sacred and secular spaces, some portrayed as I found them and others assembled through an accumulation of observed detail, memory, and invention, I have recorded others’ silent absorption in both time-bound and timeless activities.  Moments of passage and pause in the epiphanies and sorrows of everyday life are evoked through gestures that often transcend their particularity. In my most recent series the subject is my own participation in the invisible company of those who may have passed into and through these places over time.  The spaces I am drawn to are thick with evidence of use and utility, layers of color, graffiti, torn fragments of notices and mute objects as silent witnesses of our lives lived, remembered and anticipated.  India has welcomed and enveloped me into a diverse and generous geography and history that has allowed me to experience as well as surrender a heightened sense of self.” Kathryn Myers

THE US-SRI LANKA FULBRIGHT COMMISSION
The US-SL Fulbright Commission was founded in 1952 by an Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Ceylon for the administration of educational exchange programmes in Sri Lanka. The programme aims to promote cultural understanding between the United States and Sri Lanka through mutual academic exchange.

Kathryn Myers is in Sri Lanka on invitation by the US-SL Fulbright Commission