About

The collection, consisting of smaller paintings and works on paper, represents a departure from Merritt’s debut exhibition The Stranger. During lockdown Merritt, for a time, was without a home or a proper studio. With much of the world under strict quarantine, Merritt traveled cross-country. For 3 months, he only had a nomadic studio at the ready in every vacant motel and rest stop, from NYC to California and back again. These works started in that void and are now realized from the artist’s southwest studio.

This nomadic approach is observed in Merritt’s previous works but never has it …