Merrill Shatzman

Fine art · 2019 LANDeSCAPES is a multi-media collaboration with printmaker Merrill Shatzman, and musician Jonathan Henderson that examines the fragility of our environment and how it is threatened by global warming, industrial exploitation, and overpopulation. In addition ... Link to item Cite

International Print Triennial Krakow 2015

Fine art · 2015 Miswired: MCI a silkscreen print was included in The International Print Triennial in Krakow (Miedzynarodowe Triennale Grafiki in Polish, abbreviation MTG). The exhibition located in the Contemporary Art Gallery Bunkier Sztuki in Krakow, includes works by ... Link to item Cite

9th Biennale Internationale D’Estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivieres

Fine art · 2015 Seven prints of my prints were included in the Biennale Internationale d’estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivieres. This exhibition, the largest in Canada, is dedicated to printmaking and will be located in four venues in Quebec (Ancienne gare ferroviare, C ... Link to item Cite

Merril Shatzman: Exhibitions, 2013

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In Practice, Duke University Faculty Exhibition

Fine art · 2013 Seven digital and silkscreen images were included in this exhibition that highlighted Duke University faculty work. I chose to include works that displayed the relationship between my digitally driven drawings and digital silkscreen work. ... Cite

Alphabetic Excursions, Corridor Gallery, Duke University

Fine art · 2013 Twenty silkscreen prints from my Alphabetic Excursions series were on display in the Corridor Gallery for three months during the Spring 2013 semester. This series of work included fifty plus images used silkscreen and woodcuts based on a similar matrix, ... Link to item Cite

Merril Shatzman: Exhibitions, 2012

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Word Map Grid #1 -- Boundless: New Works in Contemporary Printmaking

Fine art · 2012 woodcut with digital chine collie. ... Cite

Word Maps #1,5,3 -- The 2012 Harnett Biennial of American Prints

Fine art · 2012 woodblock triptych ... Cite

Word Maps Grid #4 -- The Printed Image 4

Fine art · 2012 My Word Maps Grid #4 was one of 52 prints selected from 194 submissions for inclusion in this exhibition. ... Cite

Merril Shatzman: Exhibitions, 2011

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Word Map Triptych

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Word Map Grid

Fine art · 2011 Word Map Grids are a series of six woodcut and chine colle images that dissect and reassemble drawings from my earlier prints, creating map-like images with glyphs and graphic marks found throughout the images. These icons are further emphasized in the c ... Link to item Cite

Alphabetic Excursions Illuminated Manuscripts

Fine art · 2011 Like those found in their inspirational sources of Mughal and Persian Miniature paintings and manuscripts, Alphabetic Excursions Illuminated Manuscripts combine woodcut and silkscreen images to emphasize calligraphic styles with richly patterned backgroun ... Link to item Cite

Merril Shatzman: Exhibitions, 2010

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ARTPOEM – The Letters Project

Digital art · 2010 The Letters Project is a multi-media collaborative project by Merrill Shatzman (graphic artist), Raquel Salvatella de Prada (animator) and Deborah Pope (poet). Supported by a Duke University Council for the Arts Collaborative Development Grant in 2008. ... Link to item Cite

Alphabetic Excursions

Fine art · 2010 Inspired by my interest in the decoration and patterning surrounding written forms (Medieval illuminated manuscripts, Japanese prints, Persian paintings) mapping and signage, these complex and highly detailed silkscreen prints exclusively use digital tec ... Link to item Cite

Merril Shatzman: Exhibitions, 2009

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Art Poem Digital Prints

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Inaugural Address

Fine art · 2009 Expanding upon my different letter forms this series of prints explores the same compositional format throughout the series, with different marks and patternings differentiating the images from one another. ... Link to item Cite

Merril Shatzman: Exhibitions, 2008

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Merril Shatzman: Exhibitions, 2007

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Calligraffiti and Letter Recognition

Fine art · 2007 Through my passion for writing systems and ancient scripts I created a body of prints focusing on semi-readable, abstracted symbolic and undecipherable letter forms that reveal a matrix of patterns, words and hidden messages. In my Letter Recognition ser ... Link to item Cite

Mayaglyphs and Zapotec

Fine art · 2007 Capitalizing on my working practice of recycling, dissecting, reworking and layering my working drawings, I have reconfigured earlier prints resulting in the Mayaglyph series. Inspired by Mayan hieroglyphic writing, the structure of each image mimics the ... Link to item Cite

Cryptiffiti and Graffiti Glyphs

Fine art · 2006 This series of woodblock prints fuses signage, symbols and written forms. Through the use of my unique language/text and pictograms, these prints investigate different structural divisions and matrices that define my compositional space revealing a synth ... Link to item Cite