Meghan Moe Beitiks: Virtual Studio

Meghan Moe Beitiks works with associations and disassociations of culture/nature/structure. She analyzes perceptions of ecology through the lenses of site, history, emotions, and her own body in order to produce work that examines relationships with the non-human. The work emerges as video, performance, installation, writing, or photography depending on what arises from her process of research and improvisation. 

She received her BA in Theater Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she studied playwriting, acting, movement, and scenic design. She has an MFA in Performance Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied Bio Art, Social Practice, Environmental Chemistry, and performance methodologies. 

She has presented work in California, Chicago, Brooklyn, Wales, London, Latvia, Australia, and Russia. She has been a Fulbright Student Fellow in Theater to Latvia, a MacDowell Colony Fellow, an OxBow LeRoy Neiman Fellow, a Bemis Artist in Residence, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s recipient for the Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists.

Artist Talk: Friday, May 14th, 6:00 – 7:00 pm

Meghan Moe Beitiks is an artist working with associations and disassociations of culture/nature/structure. She analyzes perceptions of ecology through the lenses of site, history, emotions, and her own body in order to produce work that analyzes relationships with the non-human. In this talk, Moe will give an overview of the developing relationship of light to her work, and discuss her plans to work with light site-specifically in Las Vegas.

Studio Visit: Thursday, May 20th, 2:00 – 2:30 pm 

Reflecting and refracting the Las Vegas light with mirrors, film, and irony, artist Meghan Moe Beitiks brings us into her research-based process. 

Untitled (Desert Refractions): Saturday, May 29th, 6:00 – 7:00 pm

In response to the reflective glass surfaces of many Las Vegas Resorts, the desert environment, the arc of the sun, and the poem “Ozymandias,” the work explores reflection, opulence, sunlight, legacy, and the impermanence of power. Devised with local performers, this piece will include both pre-recorded and live-streamed light as the Las Vegas sunsets in real-time.