Blue WillowTrina Merry

Blue Willow
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Photography - Archival Pigment print

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Trina Merry is fascinated by the views the Western World had of the East.  The Blue Willow Pattern illustrates this cultural bias of a very Victorian romantic love story that was imprinted onto the identity of China.  

This work is inspired by the distinctive Chinese "Willow Pattern" which designed the blue-and-white porcelain imported into England from China during the last half of the eighteenth century. The elements of the pattern are linked to the legendary tale of the Blue Willow.

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 A wealthy Chinese mandarin, Tso Ling, lived in the magnificent pagoda under the branches of the apple tree on the right of the bridge, over which droops the famous willow tree, and in front of which is seen the graceful lines of the fence. Tso Ling was the father of a beautiful girl, Kwang-se, who was the promised bride of an old but wealthy merchant. The girl, however, felt in love with Chang, her father’s clerk. The lovers eloped across the sea to the cottage on the island. The mandarin pursued and caught the lovers and was about to have them killed when the gods transformed them into a pair of turtle doves. These can be seen gazing into each other’s eyes at the top of the design.

Blue Willow, 2013.

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Trina Merry

Born in 1980 in Seattle, Merry is a leading bodypainter in the generation that emerged in the wake of influence of Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, and Verushka.  Merry studied with Robert Wilson and Marina Abromovich as a  Watermill Center Summer Participant, creating 5 living bodypaint installations on site.  There she absorbed their unique attention to space, silence in stillness and transported these applications in her work to the chaotic neon streets of New York and subsequently, the world. She has also studied with Alex and Allyson Grey intensively on “Visionary Art” and the “Light Body”.  She has crafted her own visual and conceptual vocabulary that emerged through her focus on the points of juxtaposition between the organic human form and the phallic hard lines of architecture.

Merry is a World Champion bodypainter (World Bodypaint Festival 2014) who exhibited at the Whitney Museum (MPA: View in Red and 2016-7 Whitney Biennia), Edward Hopper House (“Small Matters of Great Importance”), and recently had a sold out solo exhibition at Con Artist Gallery (“Lust of Currency”).  Current exhibitions include “Line” at Attleboro Arts Museum (MA).

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All unique artworks such as painting and sculpture are original artworks signed by the artist. Our limited edition photographic prints are museum quality archival pigment prints, numbered and delivered with a signed Certificate of Authenticity. Prints are professionally framed or mounted and securely packaged for delivery. We take great care of offering the appropriate finish options, as we believe that the presentation of each artwork is essential in making it enjoyable and is part of providing a final piece of art, ready to hang on your wall.