Merritt Fletcher

Artist Statement:
I am intrigued by the play between artifice and nature, and by all things absurd. Often times I find myself perplexed while contemplating the differences between psychological realities VS. physical ones both individual and collective. I use this tension in my work, and much of my art explores ideas about fragmentation in a highly technologically sophisticated society. I am also concerned with the animal/human divide and with how we interact with our environments, our universe, and with other nonhuman creatures. Most of my paintings and prints are figurative and narrative but often the environments are abstracted, signifying that blur between the physical and psychological in a space where everything is reinterpreted as I emote about ideas of life, art, and my emotional intellectual and physical experiences with an aim for ultimate human connection.
Biography:
I was born in Huntsville, AL in 1979. I have lived in the beautiful town of North Adams for the past three years after graduating from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. I have shown paintings and prints in galleries and exhibitions in Boston, MA, Destin, FL, Huntsville, AL, and in North Adams, MA. I have paintings and prints in private collections both nationally and internationally.