Meri Brin
Special Arrangements
Silkscreen, Relief on panel
10" x 10"
2019
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Silkscreen Collage on panel
12" x 12"
2016
How To Take the Quiet Out
Relief on panel
9.9" x 9.9"
2018
Make Your Invisible A Reality
Relief, Pressure Print
10" x 20"
2016
#f2d919_Changing What Was Said
Relief, Pressure Print
15" x 20"
2016
Stage Two
Risograph
11" x 17"
2018
The grime and visual complexity of spaces, the interplay of colors and textures that build up and breakdown around us, aging billboards and wheat-pasted walls simultaneously inform my imagery. Nature reflected off human culture is transformed, simplified, and stylized. What is usually overlooked background noise becomes the foreground focus. Layering and transparency create a rich depth out of two dimensional imagery, replicating the complex noise and degradation of the everyday world around us.
My prints are built up from hand drawings, photographs, and computer designs overlaid using an exploratory process where the direction of the final image is not fully planned. Design and patterns are broken down to explore their simplified forms. Relief, Risograph, and Silkscreen techniques are utilized to produce an unpredictable tension between disorder and coherence.
Meri Brin was born in Chicago, Illinois and moved to the Bay Area in 1994. She has taught various Printmaking classes in the Bay Area since 2007, including Silkscreen at Mission Grafica, Risography at the San Francisco Center for the Book, and as full-time faculty at Academy of Art University. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally; in group shows from San Francisco, to Massachusetts, to Florence, Italy. Her prints are in private collections, as well as the Library of Congress. She has contributed artwork to Good Mail Day (Quarry Press) and Stoner Coffee Table Book (Chronicle Books). Besides teaching and making art, Meri also creates zines under the imprint Fixated Press.
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