NEBULA 2006 48 X 60

Education and biography   University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Publisher and Editor - The Arts in Ireland magazine (1971-75) Dublin Mural artist (Palm Beach Florida) Norton Art Museum man show Large Mural Commissions: Mrs. Enid Annenberg Haupt (editor Seventeen magazine), Princess Zalstem-Zalessky, Mr. & Mrs. Henry Bagley Other collectors Mrs. Maria Durrell Stone Mrs. Evie Annenberg Hall Mrs. Janet Annenberg Hooker Dr. Sadja Greenwood, Bolinas, California Dr. & Mrs. Eric Fearrington, Atlantic Beach, N.C. Guest speaker at National Gallery of Art, Dublin, Ireland Women's Democratic Club, Washington, D.C. Speaker Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, Fla. University of Rhode Island GLBT symposium 1990 I lived the life of a hermit for 26 years in nature in a quest for self discovery.  1980-2006.  After a vision quest and study of Native American culture, legally adopted the name of Charley Big Paw.   I had to legally change it back to "Charles Merrill" in 1988 at the advice of my attorney when I brought suit in an Irish Court against an Irish newspaper for claiming that I was a forger of paintings, mixing me up with Charles Merrill-Mount.  I won the defamation case.  The purpose of the law suit was not for financial gain, but to continue to gain entry into Ireland persona gratis.

Two Spirit Ones - 36" X 48" on Canvas Pink Triangle series are all 36" X 48" Acrylic and oil.

The upside down pink triangle was the badge homosexuals were forced to wear in WWII Nazi concentration camps. In Native American culture, the Berdache or two spirit ones, were gay or bi-sexual men and women accepted by Native American tribes as leaders of the spirit world, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse for example. European Christian countries gained power and legal rights over indigenous non-Christian peoples and forbid "heathens" to practice their own spirituality, converting them to their religion. Sale from these paintings will benefit The Williams Institute (UCLA sexual orientation think tank)..

GAY ACTIVISM INTO ART FORM EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY CHARLES MERRILL VIDEO INSTALLATION BY BRANDON CUICCHI DATE Aug 16-31, 2007 Opening Reception:  Friday, Aug 17th, 2007 6-8PM Broadway Gallery                                              473 Broadway, 7th Floor       Artist sales to be donated to NY, NY 10013                              William Institute UCLA                                                Sexual Orientation Legal Think Tank 212-431-1079