Meredith Starr is an interdisciplinary artist living in NY who creates interactive moments in her installations using AR and VR. 

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She earned her BS from NYU, and her MFA from LIU. Exhibiting works nationally and internationally, her artworks explore humanity’s impact on our environment and reveal evidence of a changed landscape in the Anthropocene. Recent exhibitions span venues including the Palazzo Albrizzi-Cappelo in Venice, Italy, the London Underground at Great Portland Street Station, The Hunterdon Art Museum in New Jersey, and the Biggin Gallery at Auburn University. She has attended residencies at Two Cents Press, Playa Summer Lake, and Jen Tough in Santa Fe, NM. Her work has been published in Suboart Magazine, Art Seen: Curator’s Salon, and CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women. She is currently developing a new VR experience for an upcoming exhibition at Fried Fruit Gallery in Wilmington, NC and collecting contributions for her project, To Whomever is Listening, a speculative addition to The Golden Record. Starr is also a full-time professor of visual arts at SUNY Suffolk County Community College. She collaborates with poet Sarah Kain Gutowski, and her former art school roommate, photographer Dayna Leavitt. When she’s not in the studio you can find her on a run, pausing to photograph a sculptural arrangement of trash at the curb.

 

Artist Statement

Meredith Starr’s projects are attempts to reflect our own humanity back at us. She transforms the mundane ephemera she’s noticed–shapes of shadows that flicker on the bedroom wall in the morning, bits of sea plastic that wash up on shore, plastic she accumulated in a year, records of how she spent her time. The medium of her projects serves the subject-matter. She works in analog processes like found object assemblage and contemporary technology like virtual and augmented reality, in conversation with each other. Her artworks are often metaphorical or invented landscapes. They are tactile, immersive and often interactive.  Starr’s work reveals narratives about identity, ecology and our relationship with technology.