Hugh Merrill

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.

Noted printmaker, activist and educator Hugh Merrill presents this volume on theories and activities for teaching Foundation at a university level in the arts. The journal presents assignments, discussions, directives, grading rubrics, and correlations to the greater art world and is accessible to both students and teachers. Full color photographs of students in studio, student work and more are included.

Hugh Merrill, internationally renowned printmaker and forerunner in the social practice art movement, writes and illustrates in full-color this memoir focused on his formative years where he grew up in a high-profile, politically connected, wealthy white family in the deep Jim Crow South.

Hugh Merrill, internationally renowned printmaker and forerunner in the social practice art movement, writes this memoir focused on his formative years where he grew up in a high-profile, politically connected, wealthy white family in the deep Jim Crow South.

Hugh Merrill explores his family connection to the Jim Crow south and connection to the legal lynching of Edgar Caldwell. Vivid illustrations accompanied with text make this an important social zine.

Dog Alley is a hybrid, full-color book of poems and paintings by the renowned artist Hugh Merrill. The poems are an intimate look at memory, aging, loss, privilege and sexuality all wrapped up in the potent and visceral language of emotion that only Merrill can achieve.

This book is a survey of the studio and community work of Hugh Merrill from 1968 to 2011. Merrill's mantra is "I draw everyday," and he balances his role as an activist to work with amazing consistency in the privacy of his studio. His works have received numerous accolades and high recognition, including pieces in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.A thread runs through his 50-year career of creating prints, drawings and paintings: his abstract and landscape forms seem to exist in a world of weightlessness, dislocation, and are inhabited by partly deteriorating structures of wood and stone.He learned well the geometry of his mentors Al Held and Gabor Peterdi. Merrill sees mark making as the interplay of space and form shifting on the surface of the paper.