Making and Collaboration

Making and Collaboration covers a single years creative studio journey by Hugh Merrill and a collaboration with artist and poet Jeanette Powers. The work Merrill created covers a number of themes and ideas moving from the fluidity of geometric forms in space to political works about his family concerning race and power on to drawings related to Gorge Groszs Ecce Homo and more. When asked about the exhibition Merrill responded at its base is creativity creativity as content embedded in a history of mark making spanning over 50 years. Over 9 works from the exhibition went to museums including the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art Kansas City the Albright Kemper Museum St. Joseph Missouri and the Mulvane Museum in Kansas.