Name: Josie Merck, Stone Wall
Brand: Tori Jones Studio
Price: 2700.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Josie Merck, Stone Wall

$2,700.00

- Dimensions: 25.5” x 37.5” x 2.25”

- Mixed media collage, framed

- Beginning on August 10th, Tori Jones Studio will present a show of Block Island painter Josie Merck’s vibrant and expressive work. 11 watercolors, oil paintings, and collages in the artist's signature, imaginative style depict the island's distinctive and precarious ecology: its stone walls, rolling fields, trees, and bluffs.

- Josie Merck was born in Canada. As a child, she lived in New Jersey, Mexico, and Brazil where she grew up with a love of art and nature, color and celebration. Nearly forty years ago, she fell in love with Block Island upon landfall after a rough ferry crossing in blustery October weather. The island's open, coastal landscape and its vernacular architecture had a powerful and immediate impact on her– and quickly became one of her most beloved subjects. Personal experiences in nature define her work; many of her pieces are painted atop the roof of her island home or pickup truck.

- The founder of the Ocean View Foundation, Merck has long been a conservationist and climate change activist. Her art education began at the Museum of Modern Art summer school as a young teenager, then Sarah Lawrence College where she studied painting, and later, Yale University School of Art for her MFA. She also attended Skowhegan School in Maine, the Art Students' League, and SUNY, Purchase. She has worked at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, exhibited her work throughout the country, and been the recipient of several awards at the National Academy of Design and Silvermine Guild. This is her first solo show on the island in several years after her longtime partnerships with the Encore and Aurora Galleries.

- Copies of her literary collaboration with poet Nancy Greenaway– a beautiful book titled Present on Block Island– are available to purchase here.

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Josie Merck, Path to the Sea

$1,950.00

- Dimensions: 19.5” x 25.5” x 1.5”

- Oil on canvas, framed

- Beginning on August 10th, Tori Jones Studio will present a show of Block Island painter Josie Merck’s vibrant and expressive work. 11 watercolors, oil paintings, and collages in the artist's signature, imaginative style depict the island's distinctive and precarious ecology: its stone walls, rolling fields, trees, and bluffs.

- Josie Merck was born in Canada. As a child, she lived in New Jersey, Mexico, and Brazil where she grew up with a love of art and nature, color and celebration. Nearly forty years ago, she fell in love with Block Island upon landfall after a rough ferry crossing in blustery October weather. The island's open, coastal landscape and its vernacular architecture had a powerful and immediate impact on her– and quickly became one of her most beloved subjects. Personal experiences in nature define her work; many of her pieces are painted atop the roof of her island home or pickup truck.

- The founder of the Ocean View Foundation, Merck has long been a conservationist and climate change activist. Her art education began at the Museum of Modern Art summer school as a young teenager, then Sarah Lawrence College where she studied painting, and later, Yale University School of Art for her MFA. She also attended Skowhegan School in Maine, the Art Students' League, and SUNY, Purchase. She has worked at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, exhibited her work throughout the country, and been the recipient of several awards at the National Academy of Design and Silvermine Guild. This is her first solo show on the island in several years after her longtime partnerships with the Encore and Aurora Galleries.

- Copies of her literary collaboration with poet Nancy Greenaway– a beautiful book titled Present on Block Island– are available to purchase here.

This item will be packed with the utmost care and shipped via UPS. Rates are calculated at checkout.

We want you to be fully satisfied with your purchase. If for any reason you are not satisfied, the item may be returned in its original condition for store credit or exchange. The customer has 7 days after delivery to inspect the order and contact info@torijonesstudio.com if they wish to make a return.

For more information about shipping, as well as our returns & exchanges policy, please visit our Customer Service page.

Josie Merck, Path to the East

$1,950.00

- Dimensions: 19” x 25” x 2”

- Oil on canvas, framed

- Beginning on August 10th, Tori Jones Studio will present a show of Block Island painter Josie Merck’s vibrant and expressive work. 11 watercolors, oil paintings, and collages in the artist's signature, imaginative style depict the island's distinctive and precarious ecology: its stone walls, rolling fields, trees, and bluffs.

- Josie Merck was born in Canada. As a child, she lived in New Jersey, Mexico, and Brazil where she grew up with a love of art and nature, color and celebration. Nearly forty years ago, she fell in love with Block Island upon landfall after a rough ferry crossing in blustery October weather. The island's open, coastal landscape and its vernacular architecture had a powerful and immediate impact on her– and quickly became one of her most beloved subjects. Personal experiences in nature define her work; many of her pieces are painted atop the roof of her island home or pickup truck.

- The founder of the Ocean View Foundation, Merck has long been a conservationist and climate change activist. Her art education began at the Museum of Modern Art summer school as a young teenager, then Sarah Lawrence College where she studied painting, and later, Yale University School of Art for her MFA. She also attended Skowhegan School in Maine, the Art Students' League, and SUNY, Purchase. She has worked at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, exhibited her work throughout the country, and been the recipient of several awards at the National Academy of Design and Silvermine Guild. This is her first solo show on the island in several years after her longtime partnerships with the Encore and Aurora Galleries.

- Copies of her literary collaboration with poet Nancy Greenaway– a beautiful book titled Present on Block Island– are available to purchase here.

This item will be packed with the utmost care and shipped via UPS. Rates are calculated at checkout.

We want you to be fully satisfied with your purchase. If for any reason you are not satisfied, the item may be returned in its original condition for store credit or exchange. The customer has 7 days after delivery to inspect the order and contact info@torijonesstudio.com if they wish to make a return.

For more information about shipping, as well as our returns & exchanges policy, please visit our Customer Service page.

Present on Block Island, Nancy Greenaway and Josie Merck

Present on Block Island, Nancy Greenaway and Josie Merck

$30.00

- Dimensions: 8.5" x 8.5"

- A stunning collaboration between two Block Island artists, Present on Block Island features 24 poems by Nancy Greenaway and 23 paintings by Josie Merck.

- The pages of this beautiful paperback volume are filled with full-color images of Merck’s whimsical work, accompanied by Greenaway’s lyrical text.

- A truly delightful read, this book is a feast for the senses, exploring the little joys and idiosyncrasies of island living, set against the backdrop of Block Island, Rhode Island’s rugged shoreline.

- This book is a wonderful gift for not just lovers of Block Island, but all who appreciate the natural world and New England landscape.

- Josie Merck lived in Mexico and Brazil as a child, growing up with a love of art and nature, color and celebration. She studied painting at Sarah Lawrence College and received her MFA from Yale University School of Art. She also attended Skowhegan School in Maine, the Art Students League, and SUNY, Purchase.

- Nancy Greenaway moved to Block Island with her husband, photographer Malcolm Greenaway in 1974, after first visiting on their honeymoon in 1970. Since then she has taught at the Block Island School, where a poetry award has been established in her honor. Nancy reads and writes poetry daily. Her work has been featured in local, regional, and national journals. This is her first book.

This item will be packed with the utmost care and shipped via UPS. Rates are calculated at checkout.

We want you to be fully satisfied with your purchase. If for any reason you are not satisfied, the item may be returned in its original condition for store credit or exchange. The customer has 7 days after delivery to inspect the order and contact info@torijonesstudio.com if they wish to make a return.

For more information about shipping, as well as our returns & exchanges policy, please visit our Customer Service page.

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