#miniature-art

#miniature-art

In 2016, while artist McKay Lenker Bayer was still an undergraduate, her professor assigned the class the task of exhibiting their work. Unsure about presenting her work to the public, she downsized, quite literally, showing miniature paintings with teensy-tiny labels. And the idea for a minuscule exhibition space was born. In 2018, Lenker Bayer established Tiny Art Show, a community art project that utilizes unique and unexpected spaces around Provo, Utah, to show original work by numerous artists. Until this year, the project was largely nomadic, but Tiny Art Show now has its own dedicated space.

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Most days, she rises at 6:45 a.m., her assistant soon arriving, and "sticks the kettle on." The artist lives in a caravan parked outside of her studio, so she says it's really just "a case of rolling out of bed and into a pile of felt." They work until around 4 p.m., and then between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m., the artist begins to paint. She says Netflix has been her prime accompaniment for these slots, for absorbing selections to aid productivity.

These are miniature monuments to human ambition, cast in crystal-clear resin and hand-painted with the kind of reverence usually reserved for museum dioramas.

In the evening she sits in her attic making stuff all night and the end product is unbelievable. Because she is home-schooled and doesn't attend school, it has been great for her.