The Night the Nut Got Loose

Richard Merkin was an American painter and printmaker whose satirical figurative work engaged with mid-century American consumer culture and mass media imagery. Working primarily in acrylic and lithography, he created densely layered compositions that combined commercial design aesthetics with fine art techniques, producing both paintings and prints that functioned as cultural commentary. Active from the 1960s through the early 2000s, his practice operated at the intersection of Pop sensibility and traditional figuration.

Brooklyn, NY, USA