Shauna Snow writing in the Los Angeles Times described Myers' "Rift Rise" as "a meditation upon destructive force that incorporates video monitors, music, live trees and mixed media constructions into a confrontation of landscapes".[5] Cathy Curtis in the same newspaper added that "images of destruction (fire, charred tree branches) and renewal (rushing water, green leaves) play on both sides of opposing banks of monitors, one made of sharp-edged black slabs, the other covered with live birch trees. At once very simple and very grand in scope, the installation offers a five-minute meditation on the cycle of life."[6]
Also in the Los Angeles Times, "The Allure of the Concentric" was described as having "four monitors amid large volcanic rocks show close-up views of leaves and weeds, dry cracked ground and the silhouette of stark tree trunks against sky."[7] Curtis described it as a room-size installation where the viewer enters "through a metal gate that is left ajar. Landscape imagery plays on six video monitors set on arrangements of rocks on either side of the room. At the far end of the gallery, three tall aluminum mesh “castles” huddle together. In the center of the room, three dead dogwood trees overhang a pool of water."[8]
Helen A. Harrison in The New York Times described "In the Planet of the Eye" as "a severe structure of Gothic arched steel, metal and wire mesh frames two distorted chairs. Slits of natural light provide restricted illumination, and attention is focused on a video monitor, suspended from the ceiling, on which a spinning gyroscope is juxtaposed with revolving views of a desert landscape."[9]
C. 7,500. Valencia, CA: California Institute of the Arts, 1973.
OCLC1242941336.
American Landscape Video: The Electronic Grove. Featuring works by Dara Birnbaum, Frank Gillette, Doug Hall, Mary Lucier, Rita Myers, Steina Vasulka, Bill Viola. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Museum of Art, 1988.
Preparation and Proposition, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York, 1984. Curated by Madeleine Burnside. Includes part of Myers' "In the Planet of the Eye".[9]
American Landscape Video: The Electronic Grove,
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1988. Curated by William D. Judson. Included Myers' "The Allure of the Concentric".[7] Travelled to
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Costa Mesa, California, 1989.[5] Myers' contribution was switched to "Rift Rise".[8]
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United Press International.
"Oakhurst Boy Wins NJ Legion Oratory Contest", The News (Paterson), March 13, 1965. Accessed January 18, 2023, via
Newspapers.com. "The other three contestants in the order of finish were: Rita Marie Myers, 17, of 323 E Pleasant Ave.. Hammonton, a senior at St. Joseph's High School, Hammonton, 'The Fire of Our Founding Fathers Revitalized',' a $100 scholarship."