Melissa Meier - About Artist

Education

1991 B.A., Illustration, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2011 Laced, Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, CA Bleicher Gallery La Brea, Los Angeles, CA
2006 James Gray Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2005 James Gray Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Revelations, Foundation, Venice, CA
1999 Revelations, Gallery 57, Cambridge, MA
1998 “Love” “Marriage” “Hearth”, from the Goddess Series, Gallery 70, Heywood Building, Worcester, MA
1997 Melissa Meier, Barbara Singer Fine Art, Cambridge, MA
1994 Assemblages of the Imagination, Annext Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Olhos Livres, State of Sao Paulo Pinacotheca, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Olhos Livres, Espaço Cutural Yazigi, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Olhos Livres, Casa Do Olhar, Nucleo De Artes Plasticas, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 Pilot Test, Bleicher Gallery La Brea, Los Angeles, CA
Portraits of the Fallen Memorial, Terrel Morre Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Weight, Wire, Sway: Los Angeles, Keller Williams Larchmont, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Days of Wine and Roses, Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Carporale/Bleicher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Iconoclassic, Bleicher/Golightly Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2005/6 Twisted Christmas, James Gray Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
Contact, Studio 18 LA, West Hollywood, CA
2000 Material Revelations: Variations on Collage, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
Blue, Lowell Street Gallery, Cambridge, MA
The Home Show, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Gallery, Boston, MA
1998 Fort Point Arts Community, Boston, MA
Gallery 70 Group Show, Worcester, MA
1995 Audio Arts, New York, NY
As Marionetes, Galeria Artes Applicada, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Mini Biennial Show, Chapel Art Show, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1994 The Box Show, K & E Gallery, New York, NY
Woman’s Work, Annext Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Exposiçao de Artes Plasticas, Renato Magalhaes Gouveia Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Auctions

2006/7/8/10/11 Show & Tell, Zimmer Children’s Museum
(The art of Time, Harmony, Vision, Knowledge and Building)
2003/4 Venice Art Walk & Auction
2001 Artlink @ Sotheby’s, on-line exhibitions and auctions
2000 Artlink @ Sotheby’s, exhibitions and auctions in Tel Aviv, Vienna, and Chicago
1998 Artcetera to benefit the AIDS Action Committee, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA

Selected Public Collections

Safra Bank, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Commissions

Bob Wright, President of NBC, for actress Susan St. James
Dick Ebersol, President of NBC Sports, for actress Susan St. James
VH-1 Honors, personalized trophies for the artists: Stevie Wonder, Prince, Kenny G, Michael Bolton, Bonnie Raitt,
Al Green, Melissa Etheridge, and Garth Brooks

Commercial Work

Illustrations for the New York Times Book Review (covers), Washington Post, Time, Fortune, Discover, Penthouse,
MTV and VH1

Artist Statement

My work confronts social and spiritual issues by incorporating antique objects with vintage photographs into narrative assemblage. The constructions explore aspects of femininity, the perceived, projected, expected, and the actual... and are often conceived through memories, dreams and fears. The works often include articles that I find in flea markets, antique stores and trash bins. I am constantly working with new processes and structure and have most recently completed a new series entitled “Laced”. For this work, I photographed mug shot-like female portraits outdoors with natural light. With wood putty and graphite, the photographic surfaces are re-rendered and then dramatically altered with incised lace patterns. With a feeling similar to the Maori warrior facial tattoos, at once sexy and intimidating, created out of a symbol of elegance, femininity and ironically Victorian repression.