Interested in showing art at merge?

To apply, We require:

- An artist statement, jpegs of your pieces, titles, prices, and piece dimensions.

- We are looking for artists who express a unique perspective about the human experience or who have developed unique techniques and ways of using their chosen medium.

To show, We require:

- Help hanging the work. We provide the hardware.  We will curate & hang with you.

- Help promoting your opening or closing event (We typically you to create a FB event or postcard.)

- $150 hanging fee for the month, to pay for party appetizers, hardware, and promotion, but we do not take any other commission on sales.

- Prompt pick up of work on date/time we set.

Some artists have asked their musician friends to come play during the opening or closing party to help set the  ambiance even more.

Shows generally run about a month, from set up to take down.

Please apply via email with jpegs of your work and your artist statement to eliza@mergebuffalo.com


Artwork by Casey Brink

June 4th - June 28th, 2013

Reception Saturday June 8th, 5-7pm (Post-Allentown Arts Festival)


I feel my artwork is an interpretation of what is significant in my life and time period I am going through. Works generally hold some symbolic and intrinsic meaning. Works also contain an emotional atmosphere. These pieces seem to come out of me in small series. I like to work in several different styles of paint application while involving various textures.

My pieces displayed at Merge are included from 3 series that I create. The first are from an interpretation of flowers with a heavy textural paint application where my brushes are used more like knives. These pieces bring out a more realistic view from my abstractions but still hold a sense of being abstract. These pieces were influenced by my study of Impressionism using color and number of flowers to hold a meaning.
The second series is another with a flower based subject. These are a black flower with a brightly colored back ground using the design elements of line and texture. With the pieces the flowers are paired in twos to represent the feeling of finding a match when being so different. The backgrounds hold and represent the feeling felt in the experience of the relationship.
The third series are based from my various abstractions that I've painted in my career. Texture and paint manipulation are the main elements in a desire to create images and techniques that the audience have yet to have seen in any abstract form. The pieces are meant to hold the mood when the inspiration arrived to paint the piece. Again these pieces hold a reference within them.

Works by Casey Brink can be seen at www.brinksart.com