January 23rd to February 24th, 2007 

Pierre Merkl III
 Situations, Segues, Encounters
Installation, Interview, Images, Bio
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    There will be a special reception for the artist on Saturday, Feb 3rd, 3-6 pm

Situations

Intellect creating with passion is art.
My painting puts humanism into contemporary painting. This challenge inspired me to create these "Situations". Situations force tensions. It's abstract humanism: an inclusive, psychological istoria. To the Situations comes the spectator. The spectator, like the artist, must make choices. The painter's challenges are now the viewers.

Segues

Segue: the course from conception to action to image.  What are the requirements?  The selections?   The expectations?  And the results?  It’s a viewer’s guess.  Unless you get involved. These are real people who exist only in these paintings.   Segues from and to next times; described but not explained; begging for resolution.
Taking the spectator along to participate--for better or for worse--or simply observed across a room, subject to consideration, or meditation. Moments of meaning.

Meetings

It's a meeting: Size them up...these are real people who exist only in these paintings. New friends or old enemies? Talkers or listeners?
Questioner or questioned? Victors or victims?
Greetings, with designs... Meet halfway? Or will you bring more to the table?
Choosing levels of involvement...an introduction or a relationship?
Is there a kiss in the future? Will there be a fight?
It's too late not to know these people you're introduced..

  • Pierre will also be exhibiting at the Hewitt Gallery of Art, Marymount Manhattan College 221 East 71st Street, NYC Dec. 11 through Jan. 31.