LEIGH MERRILL – THIS PLACE
2019-07-08Walking through Leigh Merrill’s exhibit is something like wandering around in a film set. The scenes feel almost real, but somehow not quite right. They are, in fact, constructed realities, expertly assembled from multiple sources. Merrill is the invisible producer, directing as if from the sky. She controls every detail, the pastel blocks of color, the very direction and quality of the light. She tinkers with the real world, seamlessly plucking elements from one place and depositing them elsewhere until the pictures are both familiar and placeless.
There are two distinct sets of images in the exhibit. The works move abruptly from the concrete realm of the architectural imagery, to large-scale prints that are a jungle of greenery. There’s no real space for humans in either set of images. In one world, she’s paved us out of the picture. In the other, we’re crowded out by plants.
Exhibition runs through to July 27th, 2019
Pictura Gallery
122 W Sixth Street
Bloomington
47404 IN
