"Leaf Pattern" Holiday Ornaments the Tyler Museum of Art

the Tyler Museum of Art (Tyler

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Oil on Canvas

"Leaf Pattern" Holiday Ornaments the Tyler Museum of ArtMeryl Blinders paintings investigate the rich world of color relationships. She uses picture planes and tableaus as fields of opportunity for color and shape interactions; they surprise, delight, and educate the eye of the perceiver. Meryl populates her artworks with strictly gridded geometric shapes adjacent to realistic representations. She plays with color choices and contrasts creating fields of spatial illusions. Meryl Blinder is a painter and