https://miralehr.com/video daily 0.75 2017-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1513195599375-UWB4OJV7XBGXN4R8F1SA/15252579_10209429964959199_1597039195700993582_o-1.jpg Video - What this place does not remember. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1513195599375-UWB4OJV7XBGXN4R8F1SA/15252579_10209429964959199_1597039195700993582_o-1.jpg Video - What this place does not remember. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1513195878085-MQIF4AVSPGU3T86MHZ7Z/Screen+shot+2011-10-15+at+2.24.30+AM.png Video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1513196026146-9LPK77L7C8CJW9I2DUDY/IMG_0594.jpg Video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1513196244041-LEJHHUWA5C2NKUNZ7UOC/DSC_3016.jpg Video https://miralehr.com/projects daily 1.0 2022-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1575323133526-F168KCBAWMP593CGH18C/jewelry_4.jpg Gallery - NIGHT BLOOMERS Mira Lehr jewelry is made by hand in her studio. All pieces are one-of-a-kind. The process mimics that of her sculptures and paintings, and all are art-to-wear sculptures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1580340341764-M20EYPRFI02YXH5HPOZU/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Magenta and Green Mangroves in The Mennello Museum of American Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1580340466962-9T3UJ407YWLBK1IN4CB2/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Mixing Currents in The Mennello Museum of American Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1590612741501-P1C2QMJ3DB95YIW1YKE6/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Artworks in The Mennello Museum of American Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1580340012183-2WH7E2FI0E2UZ90ANE9W/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Below the Surface and Siren Song in The Mennello Museum of American Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1619716807081-0ENJVH2LT9VEDPNH0T6T/image-asset.png Gallery - Taking Root, 2017 Burned Japanese paper, acrylic, ignited fuses and gunpowder on wood panels. Triptych in exhibit in Holly Hunt Gallery Showroom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1602279847854-SM9FA5ZTC4OCXR9P5RKY/IMG_8888%28retake%29l.png Gallery - "Norweky" 2020 72” x 36” (per panel) Burned and dyed Japanese paper, ignited fuses, ink, acrylic and handwriting on canvas. Permanent collection Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando FL “Blue sea, rock cut shores, buried city with granite cliffs no more” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1590612818117-H38TE68G79787KCIAXGV/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - "Siren Song" 96”x480” Mixed media on wood panel https://miralehr.com/high-water-mark-1 daily 0.75 2020-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1586536378897-T1C44HDNTFXW2OLO8OGR/Install+11.jpg Mennello Exhibition - Mira Lehr | High Water Mark - Mennello Museum of American Art Mira Lehr’s entire career as an artist has focused on the natural world and our relationship with our surroundings. Her residence in Miami, with a studio nestled right on the water, has obviously steered her work towards the waterways and open ocean that form such an integral part of life in Florida. A “high water mark” indicates a literal measurement for the highest point the water level reaches in a given area at a particular time. However, alternate meanings of the term suggest maximum value in various other sectors of life. It seems fitting, then, that this phrase should be applied to the work of an artist whose career spans six decades, building toward a well-earned peak. Lehr’s recent work has been lauded by critics for the meaningful and contemplative commentary she offers on a timely and contentious subject, the state of our natural world. However, her sense of wonder and optimism about humanity’s ability to rise to the occasion with solutions guides both her life and work. For the Mennello galleries, Lehr has created four distinct site-specific installations forming a fully immersive experience for visitors to walk in and among. MIRA LEHR: HIGH WATER MARK is organized by Mennello Museum of American Art and guest curated by Ginger Gregg Duggan. The Mennello Museum of American Art and its exhibitions are generously supported by the City of Orlando and Friends of the Mennello Museum of American Art. Additional funding is provided by Orange County Government through the Arts & Cultural Affairs Program and United Arts of Central Florida. Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. The Mennello Museum of American Art is city owned and operated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1586536437347-RGUDL7K8YLSHMNSZKU6M/Install+6.jpg Mennello Exhibition - "Magenta and Green Mangroves" 2019 Burned and dyed Japanese paper, ink, ignited fuses and gunpowder on canvas. Lehrʼs large-scale Magenta and Green Mangroves offers an introduction to some of her non-traditional techniques. The magenta foliage showcases the use of burned and colored Japanese paper, while the root system is created by the residue left after a trail of gunpowder was lit on the surface of the painting. These processes offer a kind of controlled chaos not unlike the one found in the natural world she envisions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1586536732305-1FMF0BMYAGLP52NA358X/fullsizeoutput_5f6b.jpg Mennello Exhibition - "Magenta and Green Mangroves" 2019 Burned and dyed Japanese paper, ink, ignited fuses and gunpowder on canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1586536869211-EQI3RJDM60O7776E2JDV/Install+3.jpg Mennello Exhibition - "Invisible Cities" 2018 Citing the way that coral grows—individual polyps growing one on top of another, excreting an exoskeleton that over time creates the elaborate forms—Lehr imagines the reefs like cities. Her installation, Invisible Cities, takes this inspiration as a point of departure, treating each mesh form as singularly important as well as contributing to the communal whole. Brass mesh, fabric, and burned and dyed Japanese paper inscribed with the scientific names for marine life, that is then atmospherically lit, results in a quiet and thoughtful commentary on these ecologicallyimportant and endangered organisms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1586537205605-0TS8P8JYA1Z052D0YOWN/Install+8.jpg Mennello Exhibition - "Invisible Cities" 2018 Brass, burned and dyed Japanese paper, light and fabric. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1586536871320-T9NZ1TMVH58UE895EORX/Install+7.jpg Mennello Exhibition - "Invisible Cities" 2018 Brass, burned and dyed Japanese paper, light and fabric. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1586537205954-0IWJGLX6VBJZ0US14W2U/Install+5.jpg Mennello Exhibition - "Mixing Currents" 2018 Light bulbs, video projection with sound and mirrored acrylic. In one of Lehr ʼs more conceptual installations, she pays tribute to the diminishing coral reefs that play such a vital role in the Earthʼs overall health and balance. Despite the disheartening statistics about the global decimation of coral and the evidence of mass coral-bleaching incidents, Mixing Currents offers viewers a beautiful and inspiring experience, literally and figuratively filled with light. Large organically shaped mirrors line the perimeter walls, reflecting the multiple sources of light from around the room, including a projection of a breaking wave accompanied by the sounds of the ocean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1586537498439-XZU5X6GY3PIIQ7FDZRYY/Install+9.jpg Mennello Exhibition - "Mangrove Labyrinth" 2018 Marine rope, steel, resin, burned Japanese paper and latex paint. Lehr likens navigating the mangrove root systems to a cathedral of branches that shelters all kinds of aquatic life. Similarly, her impressive installation completely transforms the gallery space into a labyrinthine environment. Using marine rope and steel coated with resin, Lehr manipulates the materials into forms that appear to have grown to fill the space that contains them. At once dark and intimidating, as well as contemplative and inspiring, these sculptural mangroves are meant to provide a space for contemplation and reflection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1586537500401-FABIAX87TAR7IMKJ9GS3/Install+10.jpg Mennello Exhibition - "Mangrove Labyrinth" 2018 Marine rope, steel, resin, burned Japanese paper and latex paint. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1586537915076-SYYPUC4N99B3NFDVM9QO/Install+2.JPG Mennello Exhibition - "Mangrove Labyrinth" 2018 Marine rope, steel, resin, burned Japanese paper and latex paint. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1586537976802-480YZ3H06FP1HVPJ6AX1/fullsizeoutput_5db3.jpg Mennello Exhibition - "Creation" 2017 Silver emulsion on panel, ignited gunpowder, burned and dyed Japanese paper, and acrylic. The large-scale panel painting, Creation, is an elegant nod to the theme of creation, both artistic and biological. Standing in as a catalyst, starting a reaction—lighting gunpowder directly on the surface of the painting or a controlled burn at the edges of Japanese paper— Lehr then allows nature to have a hand in the creation of the forms. This push-pull between artist and nature can also be felt in the composition itself. The silver emulsion that forms the background is reminiscent of a primordial fluid, or cytoplasm perhaps, ripe for growth and development. The black wisps or gashes floating in the middle ground serve as a kind of single-celled reminder of where it all began—a return to the beginning or a chance to start over? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1586538113400-QLOAIUY4H9YQV3FG5G1Y/Install+1.jpg Mennello Exhibition - "Below the Surface" 2018 Dyed Japanese paper, Japanese ink and steel beads on acrylic. Lehrʼs installation, Below the Surface, highlights the simultaneous beauty and danger inherent in jellyfish. Comprised of individual resin panels suspended from a circular armature, the entire composition echoes the way these mysterious creatures float in the open water. However, there is a precariousness one feels within the installation itself—navigating the sharp edges, fragile panels hanging by wires, and alluringly ominous forms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1586538104247-VSTRXSA3LTLB9023U1BY/Ze%252XCp%25SwifQgkDd8Ar8g.jpg Mennello Exhibition - "Sirenʼs Song" 2017 Silver emulsion on panel, ignited gunpowder, burned and dyed Japanese paper, and acrylic. The experience of standing in the gallery, surrounded on all sides by the expansive panel painting, Sirenʼs Song , is not unlike visiting an aquarium viewing area, with windows granting vistas of mysterious underwater life. Each panel offers its own biome of sorts, teeming with organic forms—some animalistic and others plant-like —occasionally punctuated by magenta forms or drips, gunpowder trails, and a parade of silver rectangular forms. While it is easy to get lost in each individual panel—like sailors pulled off-course by the mythological lure of the siren—the impact of the work as a whole is a beautifully orchestrated window into Lehrʼs view of the wonders of the ocean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1586538265935-LTA4YBNTDYYGUPW33OCB/fullsizeoutput_644f.jpg Mennello Exhibition - "Sirenʼs Song" 2017 Silver emulsion on panel, ignited gunpowder, burned and dyed Japanese paper, and acrylic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1586538517944-LOPZK83Y4B9LO04PISSF/Install+12.jpg Mennello Exhibition - "World Game Revisited" 2018 In 1969 Lehr was selected to participate in Buckminster Fullerʼs “World Game” project. She and the other twenty-six participants were recruited to look at creative solutions for tending the resources of the planet in a way that everyone would benef it—the in verse of a “War Game. ” Six decades later, this formative experience continues to resonate in her work and her hopeful point of view. The reproductions shown here represents Lehr ʼs revisitation of her time on the “World Game” project, some thirty-five years later. Mash-ups of meaningful text, painting, collage, and drawing offer a unique window into her approach as an artist and eco-feminist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1586538442771-0VO9TLEC3GUZMO4OXWCH/fullsizeoutput_6ffa.jpeg Mennello Exhibition - "World Game Revisited" 2018 The Embryo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1586538469557-S9977R9DV1IIY8YBGBBK/fullsizeoutput_6ff5.jpeg Mennello Exhibition - "World Game Revisited" 2018 The Egg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1586538482315-DDIW9UI7QR2NJMNGTGX1/fullsizeoutput_6ff7.jpeg Mennello Exhibition - "World Game Revisited" 2018 Finite System https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1586538448436-QKX29ZSX3490ETERMJ3L/fullsizeoutput_6ff4.jpeg Mennello Exhibition - "World Game Revisited" 2018 Malthus is Wrong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1586538415132-BHRMEVJMIUZR3KNXZZT8/fullsizeoutput_6ff8.jpeg Mennello Exhibition - "World Game Revisited" 2018 Energy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1586538414799-ZH8AD7HTH9UK5JG5P04C/fullsizeoutput_6ff6.jpeg Mennello Exhibition - "World Game Revisited" 2018 Patterns of Energy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1586538503340-1X1DZK93P13T3GMIYO59/fullsizeoutput_6ff9.jpeg Mennello Exhibition - "World Game Revisited" 2018 Golden Rule https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1586538512643-22SKFLXIK9JVF3Q2MKPO/fullsizeoutput_6ff3.jpeg Mennello Exhibition - "World Game Revisited" 2018 Scarcity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1586539167290-B03CXVND3BHHKD2QP29U/f%258xGHEtSY%2BgN5qzce%25yeA.jpg Mennello Exhibition - "One World Island" 2018 In 1969 Lehr was selected to participate in Buckminster Fullerʼs “ World Game” project. She and the other twenty-six participants were recruited to look at creative solutions for tending the resources of the planet in a way that everyone would benefit—the in verse of a “War Game. ” Six decades later, this formative experience continues to resonate in her work and her hopeful point of view. The reproductions shown here represents Lehrʼs revisitation of her time on the “World Game” project, some thirty-five years later. Mash-ups of meaningful text, painting, collage, and drawing offer a unique window into her approach as an artist and eco-feminist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1586539166977-VTU5PYH1XW8O2S2UGRBF/UY8yPs2aRS%2BbVmzJ9H5k9w.jpg Mennello Exhibition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1589232764739-VL0X1WFQUM7MLYB1LZPE/bTy6ZwGZQI%2BYUP7ex51eLw.jpg Mennello Exhibition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1589233411284-N7O5DZMCDQ440YH5PINT/Install+1.jpg Mennello Exhibition https://miralehr.com/news daily 0.75 2021-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1589233651416-JTMJT4J2S7V1LVOPF1ZB/MiraLehr.MOCA.RedThread.INSTALL-21.JPG News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1589233832574-VHES8TGY45SR6NVCF17B/MiraLehr.MOCA.RedThread.INSTALL-22.sm.jpg News https://miralehr.com/about daily 0.75 2021-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1580920147660-D9D16J0MGU0CJ6HBKGI3/portrait_2.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1593452044798-CSLXJ7PK1XZ4UXSN03H0/IMG_8631.png About https://miralehr.com/contact daily 0.75 2017-12-18 https://miralehr.com/miravision daily 0.75 2020-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1589232263753-DUIV39JE5LH3UY1BDOKT/Mira+Lehr+Hand+Written+Signature+lowres+copy+2.png MiraVision https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3163c4f6576ed4d3fa054e/1589231581745-IY9NRCI0ARRQSFEGF74T/03-World+GameVersion2.jpg MiraVision 1969 World Game archival image. 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