INSIGHTS
ABOUT ALEX
“Trying to pull an image out of the void is like trying to remember a dream”
Alex Merritt
Select Exhibitions
2020 | The Sketchbook Series, Online Exhibition, Aux Gallery, USA
2020 | Group Show, Galleri Ramfjord, Oslo, Norway
2019 | Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World, Stanek Gallery, Philadelphia
2019 | The Stranger, Solo Exhibition, Booth Gallery, New York
Education
2018 | New York Academy of Art
2015 | Maryland Institute College of Art
Prizes / Awards / Publications
2020 | Disrupted Realism, Paintings for a Distracted World, John Seed, Schiffer Publishing
2017 | Vasari Classic Artists’ Oil Colour Award
“Haunting and evocative, the smudges of color and thick encrusted layers of Alex Merritt’s paintings hint at desolation; ethereal portraits and barren landscapes each made with an amaranthine depth. And though the human forms may be abstract, the emotive capabilities of his work are exact. The guttural screams, grunts of agony and whispers of abject despair are perfectly depicted in an Auerbachian mania of oil chunks and charcoal scratches”
Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World
by John Seed (Foreword by Katherine Stanek)
“Disrupted Realism brings together 38 artists whose painting responds to the subjectivity and disruptions of modern experience. John Seed has selected artists he sees as visionaries in this developing movement. The artists’ impulses toward disruption are as individual as the artists themselves, but all share the need to include perception and emotion in their artistic process”
Jelly Green x Alex Merritt
Want to know more about Alex? Head over to Dialogue where he discusses his motivations, inspirations and studio practice with previous Featured Artist Jelly Green.