Stitched Editions: Walking Through the Sacred Garden | Melih Meric
Horizon Gallery
July 12- September 14, 2024
Through a unique method of presenting editioned prints, this exhibition challenges traditions of the print world as it crosses the borders of “paper.” Highlighting generative patternmaking and referencing Middle Eastern tiles and textiles, the prints pose questions of excessiveness and repetition to reclaim erasure and identity in Middle Eastern communities. The exhibition draws parallels between hierarchies in art and contemporary systems of oppression through traditional methods of crafts.
Melih Meric (b.1998, Istanbul, Turkey) is a printmaker currently residing in Akron, Ohio. They explore a spiritual journey through Islamic geometric abstraction. Using printmaking as their main medium, they create works that talk about diaspora, assimilation, and a combination of Middle Eastern traditional practices. Their works combine traditional pattern making and a contemporary way of creating editions of prints. With a passion for pattern and paper, they use innovative methods of printmaking and textile arts to create stitched editions and embossed works on paper.
Meric consistently explores systems in which their spiritual journey can transform into a visual process:
“[My artwork] deals with making peace with a part of my culture that drove me to leave it. Finding beauty in design and simplicity, then creating systems to complicate those principles. I fell in love with printmaking and the idea of multiplicity when I first made the connection to tiles from the Middle East. It suddenly became a tool to create and expand patterns that challenge traditions in crafts.”
Born within the context of an Islamic environment in Turkey, this journey altered its trajectories through the artist’s own displacement and diaspora.
Meric received their MFA in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2023 and BA from Bennington College in Printmaking. Their works have been exhibited at Bulk Space (Detroit), Frogman’s Print Workshop (Iowa), Lawrence Art Center (Kansas), Scarab Club (Detroit), M Contemporary (Ferndale), Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield), Print Austin (Texas), Dream’s Clinic (Columbus), and internationally in Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Turkey and more.
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1- Sur prints | $60
Woodblock print on paper, Edition 144
15.5″ x 18″
2- Sur prints | $60
Woodblock print on paper, Edition 144
15.5″ x 18″
3- Sur prints | $60
Woodblock print on paper, Edition 144
15.5″ x 18″
4- 10 point star green | $120
Screen print on paper, Edition 1
12″ x 15.5″
5- 10 point star | $100
Screen print on paper, Edition 12
12″ x 15.5″
6- 10 point star white | $120
Screen print on paper, Edition 1
12″ x 15.5″
7- Susmuyoruz print | $80
Screen print on paper, Edition 16
8.5″ x 11″
8- Decentering | $100
Screen print on paper, Edition 12
8″ x 10″
9- Bouquet prints collaboration with Delia Touche | $275
Blind embossment and handmade paper chine collee on BFK, Edition 16
11″ x 11″
10- Bouquet prints collaboration with Delia Touche | $275
Blind embossment and handmade paper chine collee on BFK, Edition 16
11″ x 11″
11- Bouquet prints collaboration with Delia Touche | $275
Blind embossment and handmade paper chine collee on BFK, Edition 16
11″ x 11″
12- Bouquet prints collaboration with Delia Touche | $275
Blind embossment and handmade paper chine collee on BFK, Edition 16
11″ x 11″
13- “A Luminous Point” – marble pink | $90
Linoleum print on marbled paper, Edition 1
19″ x 26″
14- “A Luminous Point” – black | $80
Linoleum print on Hosho, Edition 4
15″ x 22.5″
15- “A Luminous Point” | $80
Blind embossment on Somerset, Edition 4
15″ x 22.5″
16- “A Luminous Point – inked” | $80
Two layer linoleum print on BFK, Edition 12
15″ x 22.5″
17- Untitled: Equation drawing 2 (“(1+4)x3’2-10”) | $175
Colored pencil and mixed media on paper, Edition 1
22.5″ x 22.5″
18- Untitled: Equation drawing 3 (“(1+4)x3’2-10”) | $150
Marker on hosho paper, Edition 1
17″ x 21″
19- Puzzle drawing | $150
Drawing on paper, Edition 1
19″ x 22.5″
20- Lavender | $60
Screen print on paper, Edition 10
15″ x 18″
21- At a crossroad | $200
Marker and colored pencil on paper, Edition 1
24″ x 24″
22- “A Luminous Point” – marble green | $80
Linoleum print on marbled paper, Edition 4
13.5″ x 17.5″
23- “Seftali- inked” | $140
Linoleum print on Japanese reversible Unryu paper, Edition 20
18″ x 24.5″
24- “Kestane – Chestnut Embossed” | $225
Blind Embossment on Marillo chestnut paper, Edition VE
27.25″ x 30.25″
25- “Kestane” | $175
Blind embossment on Marillo red paper, Edition 12
27.25″ x 30.25″
26- “Kestane – Green Embossed” | $225
Blind Embossment on Marillo forest green paper, Edition VE
27.25″ x 30.25″
27- “Ceviz” | $125
Blind Embossment on Tan BFK, Edition 12
8″ x 9″
28- “Ceviz” | $125
Blind Embossment on Black BFK, Edition 12
8″ x 9″
29- “Ceviz” | $125
Blind Embossment on White BFK, Edition 2
8″ x 9″
30- “Ceviz” | $125
Blind Embossment on Cream BFK, Edition 12
8″ x 9″
31- Fluorescent Beige embossed | $175
Woodblock print and blind embossment on paper, Edition 8
18″ x 27″
32- Fluorescent Beige | $175
Woodblock print on paper, Edition 8
18″ x 27″
33- Swept Under Print | $275
Screen print on French paper, Edition 10
19″ x 25″
34- Walked All Over Flowers Print | $275
Screen print on French paper, Edition 10
19″ x 25″
35- Heated | $150
Blind embossment and watercolor on marbled paper, Edition 12
11″ x 14.5″
36- Heated | $150
Blind embossment and watercolor on marbled paper, Edition 12
11″ x 14.5″
37- Heated | $150
Blind embossment and watercolor on marbled paper, Edition 12
11″ x 14.5″
38- Heated | $150
Blind embossment and watercolor on marbled paper, Edition 12
11″ x 14.5″
39- Korkmuyoruz print | $80
Screen print on paper, Edition 10
11″ x 11″
40- “Kestane – Ghost Drawing 1” | $175
Blind Embossment on colored pencil drawing on BFK cream Edition VE
22″ x 22″
41- Badem tan | $100
Blind embossment on BFK, Edition 12
12″ x 16.5″
42- Badem black | $100
Blind embossment on BFK, Edition 12
12″ x 16.5″
43- Badem white | $100
Blind embossment on BFK, Edition 12
12″ x 16.5″
44- Badem cream | $100
Blind embossment on BFK, Edition 12
12″ x 16.5″
45- “Kestane – Green Marble” | $175
Linoleum print on Japanese marbled paper, Edition VE
26″ x 28″
46- “Kestane – Rainbow 2” | $150
Linoleum print on BFK heavyweight, Edition VE
26″ x 28″
47- Walked All Over Borders Print | $125
Screen print on French paper, Edition 10
13″ x 25″
48- Fluorescent Beige monotypes | $125
Woodblock print on paper, Edition 3
22″ x 30″
49- Red puzzle | $120
Letterpress print on paper, Edition 10
12.5″ x 19″
50- “Kestane – Primal” | $350
Linoleum print on three layer screen print, Edition VE
22″ x 22″
51- “Kestane – Primal embossed” | $350
Three layer screen print on blind embossment, Edition VE
22″ x 22″
52- Bouquet prints collaboration with Delia Touche | $275
Blind embossment and handmade paper chine collee on BFK, Edition 16
11″ x 11″
53- Bouquet prints collaboration with Delia Touche | $275
Blind embossment and handmade paper chine collee on BFK, Edition 16
11″ x 11″
54- Bouquet prints collaboration with Delia Touche | $275
Blind embossment and handmade paper chine collee on BFK, Edition 16
11″ x 11″
55- Bouquet prints collaboration with Delia Touche | $275
Blind embossment and handmade paper chine collee on BFK, Edition 16
11″ x 11″
56- Scribble drawing white | $60
Screen print on paper, Edition 8
9.5″ x 12.5″
57- Scribble drawing pink | $75
Screen print on paper, Edition 8
12.5″ x 19.5″
58- Scribble drawing red | $60
Screen print on paper, Edition 8
9.5″ x 12.5″
59- Diamond prints variable | $65
Linoleum print on paper, Edition 12
12″ x 12″
60- Diamond prints variable | $65
Linoleum print on paper, Edition 12
12″ x 12″
61- Diamond prints variable | $65
Linoleum print on paper, Edition 12
12″ x 12″
62- Susmuyoruz | $1,250
Stitched Edition of 20 silkscreen prints on paper, Edition 1
40″ x 50″
63- Swept Under | $1,650
Stitched edition of 8 silkscreen prints on paper, Edition 1
44″ x 44″
64- Blueberry | $1,200
Stitched edition of 8 woodblock prints on paper, Edition 1
20″ x 40″
65- Carnation | $3,600
Stitched Edition of 36 woodblock prints on paper, Edition 1
60″ x 60″
66- Kumquat | $1,200
Stitched edition of 8 woodblock prints on paper, Edition 1
20″ x 40″
67- I Think I remember something, nevermind | $1,650
Stitched edition of 12 relief prints, thread, framed, Edition 1
38″ x 50″
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