'Brooklyn Bridge' is a photographic image on stretched canvas canvas hand signed and numbered by the artist. This is an edition #7 of 10. This piece was purchased from the artist. A Certificate of Authenticity is included.
Trina Merry is a leading body painter in a generation that emerged in the wake of the influence of Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, and Verushka. Merry studied with Robert Wilson and Marina Abramovic as a Watermill Center summer resident, creating five living bodypaint installations on site. There she absorbed their unique attention to space, silence in stillness and transported these applications in her work to the chaotic neon streets of New York and subsequently, the world. She has also studied with Alex and Allyson Grey on “Visionary Art and the Light Body”. She has crafted her own visual and conceptual vocabulary that emerged through her focus on the points of juxtaposition between the organic human form and the phallic hard lines of architecture. Merry has performed and exhibited at The Whitney Biennial, Getty Villa, San Jose Museum of Art (with Andy Goldsworthy), Attleboro Arts Museum, ESMoA, Museo De Bardini (Florence), Edward Hopper House, Red Dot Miami, Superfine! Art Fair, Satellite Art Show, WORKS San Jose & SOMArts alongside the Guerilla Girls. Merry currently lives in New York City & Dallas & has a BFA in film.
“When Trina Merry paints, she considers color, shadow—and how long her canvas can stand without a bathroom break. That’s because she’s a world-champion body painter and people are a testy medium. She paints fast to meet the demands of the human circulation and muscular systems, with sessions lasting anywhere from 30 minutes to three hours (though more elaborate scenarios have taken 18). Merry’s auditions can attract as many as 600 models, and she holds regular training sessions to review poses and stretches. She doesn’t typically rely on backdrops and prefers to paint models outside in public, often camouflaging them into the setting by painting from a single perspective. Merry began figure painting on regular canvases before migrating to bodies in 2006. Her work has taken her to the pyramids in Egypt, the Leaning Tower of Pisa and Easter Island. The practice, she’s found, builds compassion and body acceptance.”
