Sail Out For Good, 42" x 36", oil on canvas, 2024

Tim Merrick / Biography

Tim Merrick attended The Art Students League, Cornell University and Rhode Island School Of Design where he graduated in the European Honors Program with a BFA in Painting. 

Merrick’s work has been exhibited in the United States and Europe in individual and group exhibits. His work has been exhibited in The Artist in Embassy Program, The Johnson Museum, Memorial Art Gallery and the Schweinfurth Museum. Merrick has received grants from The New York State Counsel of the Arts, The New York Foundation For The Arts and The Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County.

He has participated in various residencies including The Vermont Studio Center Johnson Vermont, Sculpture Space Utica, New York and The Contemporary Artist Center North Adams Massachusetts and Acadia National Park Artist Residency Bar Harbor, Maine and La Scuola di Grafica in Venice, Italy.

Artist’s Statement

I am inspired by faded memories, half understood moods, images and ideas seen out of the corner of one’s eye. Using the tools and techniques from my life as an artist and thirty-five years as a carpenter, I make paintings that are both process driven and object oriented. I begin with full scale templates, mapping out the paintings using carpenter squares, dividers and chalk lines. I apply paint with mason trowels, scraping out forms on the canvas with putty knives, building up texture while pulling out shapes with brushes loaded with paint. As each layer is added the paint catches on the peaks and valleys of the previous layer creating a shallow tactile relief, which adds depth and history to the painting. The work is resolved when it moves from a representational image of an idea to an object in and of itself.

Ann Reichlin

Ann Reichlin / Biography

Ann Reichlin has been exhibiting her work in museums, galleries and artist residency programs throughout the United States including group shows at the Haber Space at Central Booking, Trestle Gallery and Westbeth Gallery in New York City and the Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca, New York. Solo exhibitions and projects include Ann Reichlin: Counterpoint at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art and her twenty-year long series of site-specific interventions on Sculpture Space grounds in Utica, NY that includes Insert, Solitary View, Translucent Home, Trace, and Utica Tracings. Reichlin’s installation, Schism, was exhibited as part of New Installations: Artists in Residence at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh. Her installation, Transient Room is currently on view at Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site in Philadelphia.

Ann has participated in several artist residencies, including, Cimelice Castle Residency in the Czech Republic, Sculpture Space in Utica, NY, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including two fellowships from the New York Foundation for Arts in the category of Architecture/Environmental Structures.  Images of her work have been included in publications such as the Broad Street Review, Stone Canoe Number 4 and Number 6, NYFA Current, and Sculpture Magazine.

Ann received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder.  She was a Visiting Assistant Professor in Sculpture and Drawing at Hamilton College from 1997-2001 and an Artist-in-Residence at Brandeis University from 1990-1997. In 2016 and 2019, Ann taught Introduction to Sculpture as a Visiting Lecturer at Hobart and William Smith. Ann served as a 2019 panelist for the New York Foundation for the Arts in the Category of Architecture/Environmental Structures. 

Artist’s Statement

To break, to tear, to cut. To slice, to push, to shift.  My small works, large installations and drawings investigate the tensions and distinctions between these different states of being. Underlying my work is the idea that much of what we think of as permanent is in a constant state of flux. I have been exploring these ideas through large-scale works such as my twenty-year series of site-specific interventions on the site of an abandoned home on Sculpture Space grounds in Utica, NY and through more intimate reliefs and small sculptures that reference construction, demolition, and the unexpected beauty of what we throw away.