Josie Merck

 

Josie Merck was born in Canada. As a child she lived in Mexico and Brazil and grew up with a love of art and nature. She has been making landscapes and their inhabitants the subject of her paintings for a number of years.

Merck studied painting at Sarah Lawrence College with Kurt Roesch and received her MFA from Yale University School of Art where she worked with Bernard Chaet, Robert Reed, and John Walker. She has had 14 one-person shows in the last 8 years at the Sea Breeze Gallery on Block Island, RI, the Piermont Flywheel Gallery, in Piermont, NY, and at the Atlantic Gallery in New York. She has also exhibited her work in invitational and juried shows at the Butler Gallery, Marymount College, the Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT; and won awards at the New England Annual, Silvermine Guild, Norwalk, CT, and the National Academy of Design, New York, NY.

She lives and works in Connecticut and Rhode Island.

Contact: jozmerck@gmail.com

www.josiemerck.com