Work on view at the Swarm Booth at the artMRKT from May 16 – 19, 2013

April 27 – June 9, 2013
FICTIONAL/FAMILIAR | Cybele Lyle, Leigh Merrill, Emma Spertus

Reception Saturday, April 27, 2013 6 – 8PM
Fictional/Familiar features two and three-dimensional work drawing on architecture, photography, and everyday objects to create an allegory of perspective and sense of place. To contemplate this subject matter is to contemplate what is retained in the recognizability of the familiar within the fictional. Very little of the original landscape, architecture and objects remain unchanged here, in the translation from formal motifs to the artists’ subjective lens.

Trace, a three-person exhibition (Leigh Merrill, Andy Mattern and Pavel Romaniko), is on view at Greymatter Gallery from April 19th – May 25th with the opening reception on April 19th from 5 -9pm. Interviews by the artists can be found on the gallery’s blog.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13th, 2013

The photographic platform, PHrame, in partnership with Recyclart, presents a second edition of Splash screening events and a new series of selected work by international photographers and visual artists who are using digital manipulation in order to revisit the codes of photography.

SELECTED ARTISTS

Pelle CASS, Selected People (usa)
Kelli CONNELL, Double Life (usa)
Xavier DELORY, Formes urbaines (be)
Nicolas DHERVILLERS, Tourists (fr)
Andres DONADIO, Paysages augmentés (co)
Reinier GERRITSEN, Wall Street Stop (nl)
Jennifer GREENBURG, Revising History (usa)
Wendy MCMURDO, In a Shaded Place (uk)
Leigh MERRILL, Into the Sunset (usa)
Moira RICCI, 20.12.53 – 10.08.04 (it)
Robert RICKHOFF, Out of Place (de)

Stafford Contemporary and the Tremaine Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Manifest Destiny: Photographic works by Leigh Merrill at The Tremaine Gallery. Featuring a selection of works from three different yet connected series (Into the Sunset, Delphinidin, and Mockingbird), this exhibition explores Merrill’s fascination with themes of beauty, control, class and romanticism.

Please join us for a talk by the artist in the gallery on Friday, February 22 at 6 p.m. followed by a reception from 7 – 8 p.m.

January 5-27, 2013

Opening: Saturday, January 5 6-9pm

G Gallery, Houston, TX

Group exhibition curated by Peter Briggs, the Helen Devitt Jones Curator of Art, Musuem of Texas Tech University. Exhibition runs from November 8th through December 16th.

Work featured on the blog, In the In-Between, with an interview by Greg Jones.

Curated by Melissa Stafford, the exhibition includes work by:

Leigh Merrill, Livia Corona, Jeff Brouws, Laura Glazer, Jim Kazanjian, Xavier Delory,Randy Fox,

Edward Burtynsky, Ber Murphy, Susan Wides, Richard Edelman, Wendy Burton and Travis Shaffer.