Making and Collaboration

Making and Collaboration covers a single year's 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 Grosz's 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.