Emmett Merrill is a self publishing Saint Louis based artist printmaker. He received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and his MFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His work can be found in the public collections of the China Printmaking Museum, The Sager Braudis Gallery, The Janet Turner Print Museum, as well as The Prints and Photos Division of The Library of Congress. Currently, he is the shop manager at GraLik House, a Line art print studio located in Downtown Saint ... view more »
Emmett Merrill is a self publishing Saint Louis based artist printmaker. He received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and his MFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His work can be found in the public collections of the China Printmaking Museum, The Sager Braudis Gallery, The Janet Turner Print Museum, as well as The Prints and Photos Division of The Library of Congress. Currently, he is the shop manager at GraLik House, a Line art print studio located in Downtown Saint Louis.
“My work uses the lithographic process to create narrative prints which combine Americana imagery with that of myth and legend. The prints deal with the emptiness of the American landscape, the derivative on of ghost stories and local legends, objects of Art History, and theculture surrounding the highway system. The work also explores how time can move within a single visual space, similar to the way hieroglyphs exist as a contained image, but can be read in the same fashion as words on a page. Objects and foliage appear sca-ered along the ground in the works, as if a tornado whipped through a gas station and a history museum and all artifacts landed together in the same field.”
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