Beyond the Edges
New Work by Olga Merrill
To purchase work in the show, click on an image, or on Olga’s icon on our Home or Artists pages.
““Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.””
Olga Merrill describes herself as “a person who is not without mystery”, and the same can certainly be said of her photographically-derived images. She says, seemingly playfully, that she hardly recognizes herself as a photographer. Instead, she says, she uses photography as a tool - like an instrument to make music or a brush for painting - to create an image of her vision, with a dreamy and indirect – indeed mysterious - relationship to external reality.
Olga was born in the far east of Russia and earned university degrees in both economics and law. Her father was an amateur photographer and Olga has early memories of the smell of chemicals in his darkroom, but she never took up photography herself – until, decades later, she moved to Maine and settled in Brunswick. In 2015 she began her career in photography and quickly pursued the abstraction that became her style. The results have been spectacular. Her work has been published in several digital photography magazines in the US and in Europe. It has also been exhibited, and won awards, in galleries in Maine, Minnesota, New York in the United States, as well as in Malta, Italy, Hungary, and Greece.
A note on sizes and editioning: Some of Olga’s prints are available as limited edition prints, where only a (small) number will ever be printed. These are individually signed, and come with a letter of certification from the artist. They are printed in certain sizes and are available in no others. In this show, the “Galaxy” images and the “Immersion” images are limited-edition prints.
Other images are made available as open editions, where individual prints are not numbered and there is no predetermined limit to how many will be printed over time. These images can potentially be printed in any size, by arrangement with Olga. The open-edition prints in the show are available for immediate shipment in certain sizes, indicated in the information for each print; other sizes could be printed to order. Please let us know if you would be interested in other sizes besides the ones on hand.
All of Olga’s prints, whether limited or open edition, are made with archival pigment inks on fine art paper.
