jenny meyer-mccall

Jenny Meyer-McCall is a Kansas City mixed-media artist whose floral abstract compositions explore the modern domestic.  She creates texture, movement, and humor with thick acrylic paint, plaster, and unexpected elements by collaging two- and three-dimensional findings onto various surfaces.

Hidden messages from her childhood sagas tell a private story within the abstract composition, while timeless themes and storybook scenes make the finished piece universally compelling, all magically manifested within a garden-scape.

Note about the featured art: A whimsical mash-up of Jenny’s abstract florals and historic Plaza artifacts embedded into the canvas. Tile from the Grand Staircase is nestled into plaster, and hand-drawn blueprints of the original shopping center are intertwined with her grandmother’s vintage fabric. The coveted Plaza Lights are used as stencils, spray painted onto the surface, a nod to a favorite Kansas City holiday tradition. Jenny also visited personal experiences in this piece, as she does in her work, sharing her childhood love of Plaza shopping, and special occasion visits; but most poignantly, walking the Plaza Art Fair as a high schooler, and journaling about her dream of being a participant. Now full circle, the positivity reflected in her art is a lived dream come true, as not only a longtime Plaza Art Fair participant but also this year’s banner artist.