Christie Contemporary is pleased to present all things equal, an exhibition of new work by David Merritt, opening Friday, November 5 and continuing until December 4, 2021. 

David Merritt’s practice has often focused on systems of proliferation, natural and manufactured, making apparent and central that which often exists at the margins of attention. Here he looks at the elemental centrality of carbon,  as part of an ongoing project exploring carbon as a material and probing its role as an element openly circulating and recombining to link all forms of organic life. 

DAVID MERRITT (b. Hamilton, 1955) earned his BFA at University of Western Ontario and an MFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. David Merritt’s multimedia practice explores the common places of human and non-human systems. His process-driven, conceptually oriented work develops out of the material possibilities of drawing’s expanded field. His drawing, sculpture and multimedia works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, The Power Plant, the Textile Museum of Canada and TENT CBK, Rotterdam. A touring survey exhibition of mid-career work, shim/sham/shimmy, was circulated in 2010 by Museum London in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Hamilton. More recently his work was included the 2021 Biennale internationale du lin de Portneuf Qc. Merritt lives in London, Ontario, where he is Professor Emeritus at Western University.