"Remnants & Residual Memories"
January 11 to February 11, 2010
Artist reception Thursday, January 21, 7:00-8:30 p.m.
Finlandia University Art Gallery, 601 Quincy Street, Hancock, MI
Philadelphia artist Melinda Steffy's current painting/textile/objects draw from her interests in memory, mythology, alchemy, geology, family history, and music. Based on the belief that materials retain meaning from their previous uses, items like antique lace, the spice turmeric, tarnished copper, dead ladybugs, and found barrettes make their way into rhythmic visual compositions that consider questions of memory, the loss of memory, and the construction of systems that sustain memory.
Event Advisory: Melinda Steffy at Finlandia University Art Gallery
"Eyes on the Earth" exhibition at George School
"The Seventh Day" and "Three Thousand Daughters" (2008) are part of George School's exhibition "Eyes on the Earth: Sustainability Through the Eyes of Artists." On display October 12 through November 26, 2009.
Third prize in annual Faber Birren Color Award Show
"Song for the Morning" (2008) was awarded third prize in the 29th annual Faber Birren Color Award Show, hosted by the Stamford Art Association and juried by MoMA curator Paulina Pobocha. Show runs October 4 through November 5, 2009.
Article in Greenwich Time
Article in The Hour
Melinda Steffy in The Philadelphia Inqurier
The Inquirer's Victoria Donohoe did a brief write-up of my show at Villanova University (Friday, September 4, 2009). Online here.
Excerpt:
"...there's a luxury of sensation and touch combined with intricate adjustments of single shapes or separate smaller objects ... in her seemingly casual reveries with dyed cloth, I sense what might be the rare giftedness of a phenomenal quilt maker."
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