Art-Utility

Rick Myers started making record sleeves in the mid 90s for bands in Manchester, creating artwork for two UK No. 1 album campaigns on behalf of Doves and in the year 2000 his flyposters were used to wallpaper the outside of The Haçienda. Myers became creative director of album artwork for founding member of The Velvet Underground, John Cale and designed record sleeves for the celebrated return of Dinosaur Jr. In addition to creating identities for the seminal Manchester clothes shop Oi Polloi and for Kim Gordon’s career survey exhibition at White Columns in New York, Myers has created branding and lookbooks for fashion brands with a focus on integrity and authenticity. Recent work has been the design and production of more than twenty meticulous art books and special editions on behalf of Primary Information in New York.

Projects accomplished on behalf of others are also informed by Myers’s interdisciplinary art practice, providing conceptual capacity combined with depth and acuity with materials and production processes. In addition to a decades-long focus on underground art movements, often as precursors to widespread contemporary cultural phenomena. Through these hybrid art and design practices, projects have been presented at The Liverpool Biennial, MoMA New York, The Courtauld Institute, The National Poetry Library at Southbank Centre, The Onassis Cultural Centre Athens, The Hague Museum Meermanno, Whitechapel Gallery, and others. Myers’s books, deluxe editions and archive projects are housed in the permanent collections of institutions such as The British Library, The Library of Congress, Harvard University, The Getty Research Institute, MIT, MoMA, Stanford University, Tate Britain, and Yale University.