Opening Reception: Window and Wind by Leigh Merrill
Window and Wind is an exhibition of photographic collages that trace the boundaries between human activity and the environments in which we live.
Leigh Merrill's practice uses photography as a means of thinking through how we construct reality: she is interested in photography's ability to serve as evidence of existence, as an image with seeming veracity, and, simultaneously, as a system to mediate and construct reality. Working with thousands of individual photographs from diverse geographical locations, Merrill digitally assembles these sources to create images of imaginary spaces, echoing a sense of perpetual longing built into the American landscape. In Window and Wind, photographs have been combined, layered, and redacted until the photographic information opens into something more fluid, images that reflect and reinvent the spaces in which we inhabit.
Merrill’s work has been a part of exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad in venues such as Paris Photo (France), Centre de la photographie Genève (Switzerland), the Phoenix Art Museum (Arizona, United States), the diRosa Art Preserve (California, United States), FotoFest International (Texas, United States), the Fries Museum (Netherlands) and the Museum of Texas Tech University (Texas, United States). Merrill’s work has been included in online and print publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, Afterimage Magazine, Places Journal, Dwell.com, the Dallas Morning News, and the Houston Chronicle. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the Old Jail Art Center, the Museum of Texas Tech University, the University of North Texas Library Print Study Collection, the City of Phoenix, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and various private collections.
Leigh Merrill lives and works in Dallas, Texas where she is a Professor of Art at East Texas A&M University.
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