Reuben Merringer

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA

Artist statement

Across a range that includes traditional and experimental media including painting, video, sound, music, and writing, my practice sees image as being influenced, but not necessarily determined, by underlying structures both immanent to physical reality and those that have been built and absorbed so thoroughly as to evade perception. Whether colliding or coalescing, I aim to present (rather than represent) these forces with media that deem collaboration rather than submit them to a characteristically imperial human gesture.

Artwork

• Distant Action at a Distance, 2021. Livestream video and environmental sound collected by remote viewers through the duration, mixed into 360 degree audio with volume levels and spatial location adjusted for distance from video site and relative location during the video performance.
• Burying a möbius won't make it grow more dim, 2022. Hand applied inkjet on glossy rag
• 2023. Watercolor, acrylic, and hand-applied inkjet on watercolor paper
• 2022. Hand applied inkjet ink on satin rag
• Gainstay, 2018. Video
• 2022. Hand applied inkjet ink on glossy rag
• Where's yellow?, 2020. Enhanced digital photograph of nothing
• Landscape, 2018. Black iron oxide and acrylic applied to canvas in the presence of an intense magnetic field
• Pollock Didn't Drip He Drew (Installation view), 2016. Ink on canvas