Merrill Steiger

Merrill Steiger’s practice bridges abstraction, spirituality, and cultural memory through a rich visual vocabulary shaped by decades of artistic evolution. Beginning in ceramics in the 1970s, her shift to painting followed a pivotal trip to Mexico that opened her to ancient iconography and sacred geometry. Drawing from global travel and guided Kabbalah study, Steiger’s work integrates spiritual symbology with vibrant, often kaleidoscopic compositions. Series such as Zen Dot Energy and Cosmic Imaginarium reflect a deep engagement with mysticism, cosmology, and collective consciousness, while her early collage work—steeped in Japanese minimalism—continues to inform her compositional restraint. In recent pieces like Hopeful Chaos (2020), Steiger contemplates themes of transformation and resilience, blending intuitive mark-making with layered, otherworldly patterning. Her paintings function as meditative portals—mapping unseen energies and emotional terrains through luminous color and rhythmic form.

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