“Particular Memories (Amid the Vast Emptiness of Forgetting)”
April 18 to June 13, 2008
Opening reception: Friday, April 18—6:00-8:00 p.m.
Opening reception: Friday, April 18—6:00-8:00 p.m.
4501 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19139
The Sam Quinn Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of “Particular Memories (Amid the Vast Emptiness of Forgetting)” by Philadelphia artist Melinda Steffy. The show metaphorically reclaims fleeting memories before they disappear, creating a “memory room” of small mixed-media pieces separated and enhanced by the empty space of the gallery setting. Homemade pigments, secondhand fabrics, found objects, family keepsakes, and re-purposed paintings combine into abstract painting/textile/objects. The rhythmic visual compositions integrate Ms. Steffy’s interests in geology, mythology, alchemy, family history, and music, and they address broad questions about memory and its loss, particles and the void around them, structure and formlessness, purpose and accident.
Ms. Steffy received a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from the University of the Arts and a Bachelor of Arts degree in religious studies from Eastern Mennonite University. Her work has recently been on display at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, the Lancaster Museum of Art, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Highwire Gallery, and the Court Gallery at William Paterson University. Additionally, Ms. Steffy’s artwork has taken her to other parts of the world such as South Africa, where she gave bead-working classes for small-business ventures and constructed a mural with homeless adults, and Guatemala, where she studied Mayan back-strap loom weaving. Ms. Steffy works part-time as the concert manager for The Wilmington Music School/Delaware Music School and also does freelance art reviewing, primarily covering contemporary art in the Philadelphia region.
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