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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. [Circulate] One Thousand Clouds by Takasumi Abe, Image 3.

    Takasumi Abe

    [Circulate] One Thousand Clouds, 2006

    Installation with drawing paper, graphite, performance video

  2. Gina at Home by Gene Merritt, Image 1.

    Gene Merritt

    Gina at Home, 2003

    Ink on paper

    11 x 8 in (27.94 x 20.32 cm)

  3. Chuck Norris, 2001 by Gene Merritt, Image 1.

    Gene Merritt

    Chuck Norris, 2001, 2001

    Ink on paper

    12 x 9 in (30.48 x 22.86 cm)

  4. A Sadde Tramp Fish, 1999 by Gene Merritt, Image 1.

    Gene Merritt

    A Sadde Tramp Fish, 1999, 1999

    Ink on paper

    8 x 12 in (20.32 x 30.48 cm)

  5. Alan Saret

    Mixed Encounter with Blue, 1983

    Pencil on paper

  6. Bran Fire Well Flux by Alan Saret, Image 1.

    Alan Saret

    Bran Fire Well Flux, 1983

    Pencil on paper

    22.5 x 30 in (57.15 x 76.2 cm)

  7. Untitled #1 by Richard Howard Hunt, Image 1.

    Richard Howard Hunt

    Untitled #1, 1974

    Pencil on paper

    30 x 22.25 in (76.2 x 56.52 cm)

  8. Landscape by William Dunlap, Image 1.

    William Dunlap

    Landscape, 1972

    Pencil on paper

    32.25 x 28.125 in (81.92 x 71.44 cm)

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About the artist

Gene Merritt

American

1936-2015

Gene Merritt was an American artist based in Rock Hill, South Carolina, who never left his home state after suffering from brain damage as a boy. He was self-taught, and his access to the external world came primarily through television. Therefore, much of his work was centered around the celebrity phenomenon, with portraits being drawn from memory or otherwise loosely based off of celebrities seen in film or on TV. He began drawing in 1992, and primarily used ballpoint pen to piece together fragments of the celebrity’s figure like a puzzle. His work is noted in the Collection de l’Art Brut.