Meghan Geliza is a self-taught Pop Surrealist painter living in Auckland. Her large-scale paintings on wood are of surreal worlds swirling in intense and explosive colour, in an environment of myths, old literature and basic human emotions, inextricably blended in its own ether. Using a cacophony of colours and congealed imagery, Meghan weaves elaborate painted tapestries that comment on dual concepts such as union-dissolution, stability-change, and constraint-transcendence.
She's been exhibiting in group shows around New Zealand these past couple of years and has recently come out of her first solo exhibit, Adieu False Heart at Te Karanga Gallery. She recently curated and showed work in Beauty Meets the Bizarre Art Show at the Depot Artspace Main Gallery. She also worked as one of the event managers of First Thursdays in the past, and is part of the humanitarian arts project Little Lotus 2011, helping refugee children in the Thai-Burma border with other international artists.
Exhibits and Projects
December 2011 - Little Lotus Project - Thai/Burma border
November 2011 - Beauty Meets the Bizarre Group Exhibit - The Depot Artspace Main Gallery (Artist & Curator)
May 2011 - Not Just Another Group Show - Te Karanga Gallery
May 2011 - Pink Noise Art Appeal for Christchurch
April 2011 - Adieu False Heart, A Solo Exhibit - Te Karanga Gallery
October 2010 - Pink Noise Art Show, Kingsland
September 2010 - Two-man show with Meghan Geliza and Mexican artist Alfonso de Anda, Pleased to Meet You, St. Kevin's Arcade
July 2010 - Mural commission, Henderson Community Centre
June 2010 - Learning Curve Group Show, Verona, KRoad
March 2010 - Te Karanga Gallery and First Thursdays, Group Show
December 2009 - First Thursdays Group Show, St. Kevin's Arcade
October 2009 - Tardis Gallery, selection of works in the stock room
September 2009 - Crossover Show, Reagan Lee Gallery, Newmarket
August 2009 - NZ Art Show, TSB Bank Arena, Wellington
April 2009 - Metonymy 2009 Group Show, Aotea Centre
Talks and Events
November 2011 - Curator / Event Manager, Beauty Meets the Bizarre, Depot Artspace Main Gallery, Auckland
March 2011 - Event Manager, First Thursdays Art Event, Auckland
December 2010 - Assistant Curator, First Thursdays Te Karanga Group Exhibit, Auckland
December 2010 - Event Manager, First Thursdays Art Event, Auckland
August 2010 - Speaker, Pecha Kucha Auckland at the Waitakere Council Chambers, on the Pop Surreal Art Movement
April 2009 - Speaker, Emerging Artist Forum, Te Karanga Gallery
April 2009 - Event Manager, Poetry Night in Verona