ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Mercé Culp is a designer, native to Toledo, Ohio who’s work includes street art, fashion, graphic design and mixed media. She currently owns UrbanDigitz Arts Studio. Mercé has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in fine arts including 3D digital character modeling and Alternative Digital print. She illustrates and constructs custom fashions and accessories, styling models, brides and musicians, and has created over 600 original textile designs. Mercé's vector style gives her great versatility of imagery. This "vector-edge" can present itself as highly professional for corporate clients or a precise drawing aesthetic that creates clean symmetry for custom textiles. With a University of Toledo arts foundation and as a Bowling Green State University alumna, she uses her design skills and metal-smithing to create wearable art that now points toward the fashion industry. Mercé’s art exceeds her local reach with 2 traveling and permanent displays in the Brooklyn, New York Art Library and a residency exhibition in Nahariyya, Israel. Most recently, her artwork was installed along with other artists' work on the rocket launched by NASA on September 8, 2016. This OSIRIS-Rex mission included a microchip containing art and writing submissions which were taken on their journey to an asteroid. Solar panels on this spacecraft allow a capsule containing the microchip to orbit with the power of the sun. One of her main artistic passions is mixed media. The mixture of media becomes a mirror of her desire to see more diversity and synergy in communities everywhere. The mixture of media is not simply a marriage of paint, paper, metal, etc. She uses this to highlight and educate others about other cultures’ expression of art and their influence on us.