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Peter L. Myer was born in New York City and raised in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He is a former chair of the Department of Art at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV), where he taught for ten years. Myer recently retired after teaching for nearly 30 years at Brigham Young University. He is married to Marie Lytle Myer, and they are the parents of six children. Besides teaching figure drawing on the University level for more than forty years, Myer has continued to concentrate on drawing from life in pastels, oil pastels, and watercolor. Although the human figure has been his primary focus, recently he has been doing "skyscapes" from his deck, sketching quickly as the clouds and light changed.  "Working directly from life has always been energizing. The opportunity to emphasize, select, compose, edit, and impose your own interpretation on the subject makes doing art exciting. Copying nature, however beautiful, is simply craft. The changing aspects of a live model, or moving clouds can reveal glimpses of another level never revealed in a frozen single moment. The challenge is to discover, capture or create that ineffable something that transforms the subject into a work of art. When that happens doing art becomes a pure joy." Myer's work has been exhibited in major museums throughout the country and is represented in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum, the Salt Lake Art Center, the Phoenix Art Museum, the Springville Museum of Art, and the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University. Myer's work has been showcased in more than two dozen one-man shows and numerous group exhibitions. He is best known for his kinetic light sculpture, which has been featured in Time magazine, The New York Times and a number of other publications. His most recent kinetic work includes a mirrored chamber installation, Worlds Without End, and an interactive work, Sing to the Spheres. All of the pieces offered on this site are originals... one of a kind pieces. These are not reproductions, copies, giclees, or prints. Most of them were created from life.