ARTIST TALK:
Leigh Merrill
THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2026 6-8pm
Join us for an artist with Lost Pine, Double Pine artist, Leigh Merrill.
Doors open at 6pm and talk will kick off at 6:30.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Leigh Merrill's artwork challenges photographic perception and the physical and cultural formation of place. By interrogating the inherent limitations of photographic representation, her work reveals both the desire and simulacrum present around us and within the medium itself. Merrill uses photography and video to observe, making thousands of source photographs and videos on location. Working in her studio, she creates collaged images from this massive database; each work contains up to hundreds of individual sources. These meticulously crafted collages combine disparate elements to create a visual language that pulls more from painting and drawing than traditional photography.
Leigh Merrill is an American Artist born in 1978. Working primarily with photography, Merrill creates digitally collaged photographic and video works that explore our contemporary landscapes and the impact of desire, simulation, and perception on our environments. Leigh Merrill received her BFA from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM and her MFA from Mills College in Oakland, CA.
Merrill’s work has been a part of exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad in venues such as Paris Photo (France), Centre de la photographie Genève (Switzerland), the Phoenix Art Museum (Arizona, United States), the diRosa Art Preserve (California, United States), FotoFest International (Texas, United States), the Fries Museum (Netherlands) and the Museum of Texas Tech University (Texas, United States). Merrill’s work has been included in online and print publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, Afterimage Magazine, Places Journal, Dwell.com, the Dallas Morning News, and the Houston Chronicle.
Merrill lives and works in Dallas, Texas where she is a Professor of Art at East Texas A&M University.