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Statement about the recent workMerricle’s recent body of work explores bodies of water with the presence and absence of a shape, sharks. His new work allows for playful reflections from sky to sea, and continues to push figure and ground relationships. Merricle’s process relies heavily on reworking the surface of each painting many times. Through this process, the surface becomes activated in an impromptu way, creating an image that is found rather than planned. Merricle would contest “The subject could be anything, it was pure chance the work landed on the shark,cat,ect. The shark could easily be a stand in for anything…even myself.” Looking back at Merricle’s previous work the water has been present in many of his paintings, recently, in his small figurative work. In these works the figures appear to either float or sink leaving the viewer to question, victim or survivor. Merricle's studio is filled with many bodies of work happening simultaneously each one affecting the next, it's as if the work is a living organism, growing changing maturing with time. |
CURRICULUM VITAE
Edmund J Merricle II
e.merricle@Gmail.com
Education
2013 Master of Fine Arts, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA
2009 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
2009 Summer Italy Painting Program
Exhibition
2019
Ann Metzger National Biennial Exhibition, St. Louis, MO, St. Louis Artists' Guild
2018:
Solo Show- Recent Paintings, Dayton, OH, Dutoit Gallery
Solo Show- Infested Waters, Dayton, OH, Divisible Gallery
Feed The Adjuncts, Dayton OH, Index Gallery
Place Value, Dayton, OH, Radial Gallery
Members Show, Dayton, OH, Dutoit Gallery
Place Value Two, Dayton, OH, The Hanley Sustainability Institute
2017:
Solo Show - Recent Work, Springfield, OH, Wittenberg University Gallery
Gleaning, Dayton, OH, Radial Gallery
Solo Show- You Wanted it Darker, Dayton, OH, Dayton Artist Society
Wright State Alumni, Dayton, OH, Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries
2016:
Faculty Show, Dayton, OH, Radial Gallery
Under One Roof, Dayton, OH Fifth Street Gallery
Feed The Adjuncts, Dayton, OH, Divisible
2015:
Under One Roof, Dayton, OH Fifth Street Gallery
2013:
MFA National Competition, New York, NY, First Street Gallery
Juror – Phong Bui 20 out of 185
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth MFA Thesis, Soprafina Gallery, Boston Ma
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth MFA Thesis Exhibition, New Bedford, MA
Email : e.merricle@gmail.com
