JACK MERNIN
b. 1991
Biography
Jack Mernin (b. 1991, Pennsylvania) is an artist who divides his time between New York City and Belleville, PA. Mernin received his B.F.A from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2014.
Mernin works through an inspirational image or encounter, pushing representation to the very limits of legibility and activating the unwieldy significance of gesture. He uses watercolor, ink, and graphite on paper to develop these inquiries into form, gesture, and meaning making. Works of art in their own right, Mernin’s works on paper offer insight into the many moments of perception and representation that accumulate while he gestates his larger paintings.
Mernins’ large-scale paintings present translations of visual encounters accumulated over time. Resisting full representation or abstraction, Mernin’s fragmentary forms collide and muddle until a surprising image inadvertently reveals itself. Dynamic color relationships absorb spontaneous structures, establishing seductive, unstable compositions that both command and retain attention.
Selected works
Installation views
Exhibitions with JO-HS
JO-HS NY, Jack Mernin: Still Wants in Motion, June 2023
JO-HS CDMX, JO-HS: In Residence, September 2022ARTIST’S CV
2024
JO-HS NY, Jack Mernin: Live Time, March 2024
2023
JO-HS NY, Jack Mernin: Still Wants in Motion, June 2023
2021
the nonsense of the square. the ridiculousness of the stare., Bellefonte Art Museum, Bellefonte, PA - January 2 – 31, 2021.
2020
Future Novel, Trotter&Sholer, New York, NY, October 8 – November 1, 2020.
2019
Jack Mernin, Belleville Paintings, Brookmere Winery, Belleville, PA, March 27 – April 27, 2019. Every Now and Again, Altro Mondo Gallery, Manila, Philippines, March 23 – April 22, 2019. All of a Sudden, Dulo MNL, Manila, Philippines, January 28 – February 11.
2018
Lansgage, Kanto Gallery, Manila, Philippines, August 25 – September 20.
2016
Jack Mernin, New Work, Zola’s Gallery, State College, PA, June 1 – July 1.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2022
JO-HS CDMX, JO-HS: In Residence, September 2022
2019
HUE, Studio 525, New York, NY, September 12 – 15.
COLOR National Juried Show, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Brooklyn, NY, September 21 – October 27.
2018
Heaven is Now, Altro Mondo Art Gallery, Manila, Philippines, November 9 – December 9. Manila Biennale: Open City, Intramuros, Manila, Philippines, February 2 – March 5.
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2013 RISD European Honors Program, Rome, Italy
2012 C. Barton McCann School of Art, Petersburg, Pennsylvania