Ethan Mertz is an artist residing in Dallas, Texas who received his BFA from The Art Institute of Chicago. Through paint, he creates architecture which strives to shape the area between the material and immaterial lines of life. Influenced by ideas of pareidolia and apophenia, he conveys his life’s experience in portraiture. By way of landscape, he depicts fantasies of the distant future. Ethan works as an artist and assistant teacher for children with special needs.