Window Galleries Featured Artist: Megan Geckler

Megan Geckler’s site-specific installation, Where the light dissolves into color, will occupy CLMA’s Window Galleries on the North, East and South exteriors of The Depot.

Megan Geckler (b. 1975, Abington, PA) explores the intersection of pattern, perception, and the built environment. Working primarily with simple, everyday materials such as flagging tape and hand-dyed ropes, Geckler creates immersive installations that transform architectural spaces through color, line, and optical rhythm. Her artwork draws upon the visual languages of craft traditions, graphic design, fine art, and architecture, reinterpreting them through large-scale geometric compositions. Through careful repetition and layering, Geckler constructs hyper-colorful visual fields that create an embodied experience of pattern and form.

Often created in direct response to a specific site, her installations engage the architecture and social context of the spaces they inhabit. By using accessible materials and processes, the work highlights the potential of everyday materials to generate complex visual environments. Geckler’s projects frequently incorporate collaborative or participatory elements, inviting communities and volunteers to take part in the making of the work. These collective processes emphasize connection, shared labor, and the transformation of everyday spaces into moments of wonder and discovery.

Megan Geckler is an American artist (b. 1975, Abington, PA) living and working in Los Angeles, California. She received her BFA from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art (Elkins Park, PA) in 1998 and her MFA from Claremont Graduate University (Claremont, CA) in 2001.

Installations

Geckler’s large-scale, site-specific installations and artworks have been exhibited internationally at Customs House (Sydney, NSW, Australia), Paris Fashion Week (Paris, France), and The Courtauld Institute (London, United Kingdom). In the United States, she has mounted large-scale, site-specific installations at venues such as the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (Salt Lake City, UT); Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH); Museum of Art and History (Lancaster, CA); Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach, CA), Vincent Price Museum of Art (Monterey Park, CA), Torrance Art Museum (Torrance, CA), and Pasadena Museum of California Art (Pasadena, CA).

Her artwork is in the corporate collections of Creative Artists Agency (Los Angeles, CA); Four Seasons Resort at Walt Disney World (Orlando, FL); Nike (Portland, OR), Human Rights Campaign (Washington, DC), eBay (San Jose, CA), SoulCycle (Hoboken, NJ), and Facebook (Northridge, CA).

Geckler’s work has been profiled by ArtForum, “O” The Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post, Interior Design Magazine, Colossal, The Sydney Morning Herald, Fabrik, LA Weekly, The Creators Project, Designboom, Artillery, Elle Decor Italia, Los Angeles Times, The Getty Research Institute Newsletter, The Associated Press, Art Ltd., Huffington Post, Artweek LA, ArchDaily, ArtUS, ArtDaily, The Columbus Dispatch, Artscene, Design Milk, Flavorpill, and Glasstire, among many others.

Awards

Geckler has been awarded multiple public art commissions, including two projects at the LAX Airport and at Dumke Plaza (Ogden, UT). She was awarded the City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Mid-Career Fellowship by the Department of Cultural Affairs in 2016 and a Durfee ARC Completion Grant in 2008.

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