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DOUG MEYER
Doug Meyer is a northeast-Ohio-based artist. He started making sculpture in his bedroom in 9th grade and progressed into paintings, art cars, inflatable art, and听 more. Unable to afford art school, Doug eventually enrolled in welding school,听 graduating with a Combination Welder certificate from Job Corps in 1998. He听 soon bought his first welder and began building his own modified bikes and听 furniture. He also participated in and hosted arts events at local clubs, studios, and听 galleries. By 2008, his furniture works were selling well enough for him to go into听 business full-time, selling his wares under the moniker Rustbelt Rebirth. Doug has听 since sold furniture all over the united states and popped up in articles from Elle Decor to American Craft to the NY Times. He was awarded multiple awards of听 excellence from the American Craft Council in 2013. He currently works out of听 his studio warehouse in Warren, Ohio.听
"I've always been fascinated by past versions of the future by way of science听 fiction and modernist design trends. Part of me still lives in a post-apocalyptic听 world where I take scraps of what鈥檚 left of the old world to build a new one. The听 downfall of manufacturing in Ohio is a metaphor or a foreshadowing of this world.听 All the post-consumer junk washing up on the shores of local salvage stores and听 scrap yards litter my imagination. Armed with a tubing bender, a welder, and a听 shear I get to transform the old world into an archival thing of beauty. It鈥檚 possibly听 the only power I have. Old desks, shelving, furnace housings, toolboxes, lockers,听 and more are cut back to flat sheets of colored metal. Frames are built with hand pulled bends and sometimes scraps of other frames. The process highlights the听 usefulness of the separate pieces instead of blending them or hiding their disparate qualities. The results are a holistic design that鈥檚 98% efficient. Welcome to the听 new world."