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DARKROOM: An Auction to Benefit the Museum of Contemporary Photography
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- Sale 2024
Timed
Closing from:Feb 29 | 10:00 PM CST
Timed
Sale 2024
Estimate$1,200 – $1,500
Courtesy of the artist.
Between Shadows and Light by Tom Merilion offers an intimate, family-centered collaboration and exploration of universal themes of love, life, and loss. Returning to photography after many years as a successful filmmaker, Merilion began this project in France during the last two months of his mother’s life, blending techniques of observational documentary with traditions and structures of posed portraiture. Away from the hospital bed of his mother (the late Sylvani Merilion, cofounder of IKON Gallery Birmingham), he stepped into her former role of photographing figure studies of her then-young husband, Merilion’s now nonagenarian father, John.
Merilion has previously exhibited photographic works at the National Portrait Gallery in London, Belfast Exposed gallery in Northern Ireland, the Midlands Art Center in Birmingham, and Royal Birmingham Society of Artists gallery. He lives in London and works in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Condition: Excellent
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