Sculptures of strawberries and cheeseburgers greet visitors of Studio 101, a gallery in Fort Worth’s Riverbend neighborhood.

Kaylee Meyer, a first-year studio art major at TCU, is one of several artists whose work is on exhibit at the gallery’s summer pop art display through September 18.

Kaylee Meyer created “Dali’s Birthday Cake” while in high school, and she competed in the Texas Art Education Visual Art Scholastic Event. Courtesy of Kaylee Meyer

Her piece “Dali’s Birthday Cake” is a sculpture of a five-tier white cake with dark pink frosting topped with rainbow sprinkles and red amanita muscaria mushrooms, which are known for being hallucinogenic.

A second large piece, “Love,” is an elaborate collage of 3,000 hand-cut paper flowers, leaves, bees and butterflies. Hidden among them are six animals. If a gallery-goer finds all of them, they may claim a frog pin, Meyer’s nod to TCU.

“I wanted to have something more cartoon, more fun, more colorful,” said Meyer, whose usual style is black ink stippling, a technique that uses small dots to form patterns, shades and textures. “I just really wanted to stretch my boundaries.”

Comprised of more than 3,000 hand-cut paper leaves, flowers and critters, Kaylee Meyer created “Love” for the Studio 101 summer pop art show. Courtesy of Kaylee Meyer

Meyer has been posting Instagram photos of gallery visitors viewing her work. She said she enjoys their feedback and hopes to show her art in other Fort Worth spaces.

“It’s motivating. It’s inspiring. I never realized the Fort Worth area has so many art organizations,” the Fort Worth native said. “It’s like a family of artists.”

Crafting intricate works by hand enhances their sentimentality, Meyer said. She placed and glued each tiny piece of “Love.”

“Love is my word in life. It’s in every song I write, all my drawings,” she said. “Our world is very complicated. But at the end of the day, I think everything comes back to love: love of family, love of friends, love of community, love of passion and what you do in life. It’s the interconnected meaning of everything.”