Threshold Gallery

On view: April 15 - July 2, 2022

Benjamin Merritt

Came out Swinging (detail)

etching, mezzotint, monoprint

This exhibition features a series of ten black and white prints made by Benjamin Merritt that frame a stark black abstract image within a large white border. With scratchy markmaking and texture, white text overlays the black abstraction, and bleeds out onto the border of the paper. The text on the prints, together, reads:
“pain emerges at the door/ of my tired patience/ overstay my welcome/ hide from pain/ & make jokes/ at its expense/ close my eyes &/ feel right at home/ count the thumps/ til the lock can’t hold”