Landry McMeans is a full time artist based in Austin, TX with a passion for color and the American West.
Landry creates limited edition stencil paintings with a sophisticated, muted, desert color palette. She brings to life a sunbleached dreamworld of iconic southwest landscapes and its flora and fauna with large scale, lifesize works. Her art is transportive and balances a warm, organic tone with crisp, clean lines, and a graphic pop aesthetic.
Nature, largely the desert, is my muse. I have an obsession with color relationships, and love the challenge of simplifying an image into its most essential and beautiful parts. I extract what's necessary, and play with color pallets. I enlarge and amplify what is normally small and overlooked to create an powerful, immersive, and serene experience.
Image Credit Matt Gaillet
The Process
Landry McMeans utilizes stenciling as her primary medium, drawing from a background in graphic design. Her process begins with the composition of images in Photoshop, meticulously crafted layer by layer, akin to the screen printing process. Each piece is a testament to her dedication to detail. Layers are translated to individual stencils on bristol paper, where each shape of the image is hand-cut. Color is a major facet of McMeans’ work, and each shade is hand mixed and applied for crisp, defined shapes. With some designs encompassing upwards of 14 stencil layers, her method underscores both complexity and precision.
Each “print” emerging from McMeans' studio is a limited edition, handmade original work of art, imbued with its own unique character. Embracing the temporal nature of her stencil prints, McMeans finds liberation in the ever-evolving process, viewing each subsequent print as an opportunity for artistic evolution. With a finite lifespan for stencils, she finds inspiration in the distinctive charm of the gradual degradation of each stencil, resulting in prints that resonate with captivating allure and enduring creativity.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Neighborhood Store, Dallas, TX
2023 Commerce Gallery, with Cruz Ortiz, Lockhart, TX,
2022 Thornton Rd Studios Holiday Market
2022 Blue Genie Christmas Bazaar
2022 Austin Studio Tour
2022 Space Art + Supply, “Dreamscapes,” Topanga Canyon, CA
2022 Neighborhood Store, “Out There the Stars Shine Bright”, with Camille Woods,
Jonas Crisco, Fort Guerin, Tyler Shelton, & Scott Ackerman
2022 Thornton Rd May Market
2022 Blue Genie Art Bazaar May Market
2022 Thornton Rd Studios May Market
2022 Assemblage Contemporary Craftsman Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Buda, TX
2021 Blue Genie Christmas Bazaar
2021 Thornton Rd Studios Holiday Market
2021 Austin Studio Tour, Austin TX
2021 Cloudtree Studios and Gallery, “Golden Hour,” with Lily Timberlake
2021 Commerce Gallery, with Camille Woods and Christy Stallop, Lockhart, TX
2021 Blue Genie Art Bazaar May Market
2020 Texas Women, Western Gallery
2019 East Austin Studio Tour
2019, Bloom Gallery, Birds of Prey, Thomas, WV
2019, Prairie Gallery, Homecoming, Austin, TX
2018, Lamplight Gallery, Desert Alchemy, Thomas, WV
2017, Hotel Monte Vista, Desert Blooms, Flagstaff, AZ
2017, Haunted Hands Gallery, Full Moon, Tucson, AZ
2016, Art Science Gallery, A River Runs Through It, Austin TX
2016, 5 Points Gallery, Desert Blooms, Tucson, AZ
2012, Echo Country Outpost, Daydream Western, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023-2019, Blue Genie Art Bazaar, Austin, TX
2023, Dynamic Earth, Lone Gallery, Dallas, TX
2022, Group Show, Commerce Gallery, Lockhart, TX
2022, The One with all the Squares, El Paso Frame Co., El Paso, TX
2019, EAST Austin Studio Tour #44, Austin, TX
2019, WEST Austin Studio Tour #351, Austin, TX
2015, Drury Inn & Suites, Santa Fe Exports, Santa Fe, NM
2014, Georgetown Arts Center, Georgetown Art Hop 2014, Georgetown, TX
2014, Art Science Gallery, Geo, Austin, TX
2014, Big Medium, Big Medium Presents E.A.S.T., Austin, TX
2013, Austin City Hall, People’s Gallery Exhibition, Austin, TX
2012, Austin Bergstrom International Airport, Three Artists to See, Austin, TX
2012, Galleria Sibley, Viva Big Bend Festival, Alpine, TX
COLLECTIONS/COMMISSIONS
2022 Hyde Wall Mural Design, Tecovas Boots, South Congress, Austin, TX
2018 Ode to the Post, The Western Post, Flagstaff, AZ
AWARDS
3D Category Award. Second Place. Georgetown Art Hop, 2014
AFFILIATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS
Thornton Road Studios, Austin, TX- Joined 2020
Artus Co, Austin, TX- Joined 2020
Mosaic Sound Collective, Austin, TX-Joined 2019
Pump Project Art Collective, Austin, TX-Joined 2013
EDUCATION
Texas State University, San Marcos - BA Communication Design, 2009
PUBLICATIONS
Western Art Collector Magazine, June 2021, p 89
Western Art Collector Magazine, September 2019, p 68
“2019 Best of Austin” - 30th Annual Austin Chronicle
Meet Landry McMeans, Voyage Houston, December 2018
Desert Blooms, Western Art Collector Magazine, #108, August 2016, 1 page
Landry in Suspense, Citygram Austin, November 2014, 4 pages
Manifest Destiny, Utne Magazine, May-June 2013, 1 page
I am drawn to the "muted psychedelia" of the desert, and I create visual records of desert landscapes and the flora and fauna that need to be remembered and protected.
— Landry McMeans
In addition to visual art, Landry is a songwriter and steel guitar player.
McMeans originally found inspiration for her work from almost a decade of summers touring throughout the southwest with musical outfits, The Lonesome Heroes, and Brooklyn, NY based band, Gangstagrass (Emmy nominated). Long desert drives from gig to gig on hot summer days is where she was first introduced to the "muted psychedelia" and dreamscapes of the Desert.
Image Credit Matt Gaillet
