North Adams Open Studios -
Elf Parlor
- Artist Statement:
Merit Fletcher
I am intrigued by the play between artifice and nature.
Often times I find myself perplexed while contemplating the differences between psychological realities versus physical realities--both individual and collective. I use this tension in my work. I begin from direct observation of nature—its phenomenal beauty, its discord--as an aesthetic means to explore mind-scapes that are concerned with the animal/human divide, with how we relate and interact with our environments, our universe, and with other nonhuman creatures. My work also explores memories, dreams, and the idea of the passage of time as curvilinear and folding in on it’s self.
- Biography:
Merritt Fletcher
Merritt Fletcher is a graduate and 5th year graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and is currently at MCLA finishing her BFA. Recent exhibitions include Elements in the Down Street Art Project, The 2009 Berkshire Art Association Fellowship Show at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA, in which Merritt was an award recipient, and BLUE— a national prize show juried by Jen Mergel of the ICA Boston and exhibited at the Kathryn Shcultz gallery in Cambridge, MA. Merritt loves the Berkshire Mountains, planting flower gardens, watching birds, her cats, vegan cooking, her best friend and creative soul-mate Keane, and the work accomplished by organizations like Paul Watson’s Sea Shepherds, and Gene Bauer’s Farm Sanctuary.