about the artists:

Tim merrick is a graduate of Rhode island school of design and studied at the art students league and cornell university.

merrick’s work explores the relationship between order and disorder, calm and chaos, lightness and darkness, reason and intuition. Using the tools and techniques from his life as an artist and forty years as a carpenter, Merrick makes paintings that are both process driven and object oriented.

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bryna silbert’s education includes studies at the university of maryland, Suny Cortland and cornell university.

Silbert is a narrative sculptor working from life. she says of her work, “i have always been intrigued by the challenges of the human form and captivated by it’s expressive language of grace and gesture.” fifty years of being an artist, and she is not yet done.

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ralph turturro holds a BSA from the university of wisconsin, an mfa from pratt institute and further studies at queens and brooklyn college.

turturro’s expressionistic work is loaded, filled with detritus, messy and multi dimensional, in both the figurative and literal sense. in describing his own work, turturro quotes dekooning.. ‘It’s all in the soup’.