Biography Merle Plagge

BIOGRAPHY

I was born in Chicago, and was educated up through junior college in the South Suburban Chicagoland area. I finished college at the University of Illinois and then went to Medical School at St. Louis University. Internship and Residency was at Pontiac General Hospital (MI) and University of Michigan. Following residenccy I was in Practice in Drayton Plains, MI I became board certfied, and was Director of Surgical Education at Pontiac General Hospital for several years. I am an American Board of Surgery certified physician, now retired from a busy surgical practice in Northern Michigan.

While in practice my artistic expression was through photography, both color and black and white. Shortly after retiring I went to a beginning watercolor class on a challenge, and the rest is history. My art education since retiring has been largely self taught, with strong relation to photography and through workshops with Jack Proctor, Helga Flower, Cheng-Khee Chee, Rod Lawrence and others. Many of my paintings are now produced with improvisation and experimentation, using acrylic, watercolor and other paints and media. This very process makes each painting unique and non-reproducable, except by copying and archival printing.

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I am a member of the International Society of Experimental Artists. GRB, below, is my first acceptance to signature membership. I am also a member of the Southwest Michigan Watercolor Society, and the Paw Paw Art Association. I've had juried show acceptances in the Greater Michigan Art Exhibition and the Three Rivers Regional art shows.


"Iatrogenetic" - Watercolor on paper 14x11" - $200	"Of Course!" Mixed on Paper - 14x11" - $200.	"Feuerlicht" Acrylic on Paper 14x11" - $200

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