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.

clockr  2021
twigs, processed wood, printed paper, lampblack gouache
13 x 2 x 4 inches

anthropomorph, 2019
book pages and cover, processed and unprocessed wood
63 x 32 x 25 inches

 pidgin contract 2019
lampblack pigment, acrylic medium,
sheet lead
35 x 48 inches

aerobic figures 1-3 2020
(detail) triptych; soot, discarded book plates
3@ 15.5 x 11.125 inches

new moon 2021
soot, lampblack gouache, book pages
9 x 6 inches

roundabout 2021
soot, endpaper
15.75 x 12.75 inches

of greatness (h.k.), 2020
folded photogravure book page, frame
13.5 x 15 inches