Melissa Stern
USA (United States)
http://www.melissa-stern.com
Kunstart: Zeichnung
Technik: Bleistift
Vita / Lebenslauf:
EDUCATION
1976-1980 BA Anthropology and Studio Art Cum Laude with Honors in Anthropology Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
1982-1984 MFA Ceramics State University of New York at New Paltz
PUBLICATIONS
American Illustration 26 – The Best American Illustrations of 2007, November 2007
Review of BIRDLAND- The Memphis Commercial Appeal, Friday April 21, 2006
BIRDLAND- Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition. David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN 2006
TRANS-CERAMIC-ART – Catalogue of The 3rd World Ceramic Biennale 2005. Published by Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, Korea 2005
500 FIGURES IN CLAY - by Veronika Gunter. Lark Books, Ashville, NC 2004
BACK TO SCHOOL- catalogue essay by Paul Karlstrom. Published by The Children's Museum of the Arts NY, NY, Winter 2003
CERAMIC FIGURES - by Michael Flynn, Rutgers Univ. Press - New Jersey 2002
FORM & TRANS-FORMATIONS - by Judith Schwartz, catalogue. Queens, NY 1997
NEW YORK CLAY - essay by Judith Schwartz, exhibition catalogue, Rogaland Kunstnersenter, Rogaland, Norway 1996
THE NEW YORK TIMES - Review - Sunday, Dec. 15, 1996
CHAIRMANIA - FANTASTIC MINIATURES by George Beylarian, Harry Abrams pub. New York, NY - 1994
DAN'S PAPER - Review - Bridgehampton, NY - May 20, 1994
EAST HAMPTON INDEPENDENT - Review - May 22, 1994
THE NEW YORK TIMES - Review - Sunday, August 2, 1992
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ART CRAFT - A COLLECTOR'S GUIDE – by Barbara Mayer, Peregrine Smith Books - Salt Lake City, UT - 1988
PRONTO - Cover photograph and article. Vol. 4 #5 – Tokyo, Japan - 1988
ARS AUREA – Magazine article Berlin, Germany - winter 1988
GRANTS/AWARDS
ART CRITIC - The New York Press- Current
NY COMMITTEE – Human Rights Watch Film Festival - Current
AWARDED ARTIST RESIDENCY, The Serenbe Institute, Serenbe GA, 2007
ADVISORY BOARD- Madison Park Conservancy, NY, NY- Current
ADVISORY BOARD- Greenwich House Pottery, NY, NY- Current
ADVISORY BOARD- The Children's Museum of the Arts. NY, NY. - Current
2001- SPONSORS AWARD R&F HANDMADE PAINT JURIED EXHITION
1990 AND 1994 KOHLER FOUNDATION GRANT - Artist-in-Residence Kohler Company, Sheboygan, WI
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Bear Stearns & Co. New York, N.Y.
Dow Jones & Co Inc, New York, NY
Davison Collection, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
The Arkansas Art Center
Stavenger Museum, Stavenger Norway
The Metropolitan Home Magazine Design Collection, NY, NY
The Kohler Company Collection, Sheboygan, WI
Designtex, NY, NY
George Beylerian, New York, NY
Judith & Martin Schwartz, New York, NY
Gail & Robert Brown, Philadelphia, PA
David and Clemmer Monteque, Washington, DC
Aktivitäten / Ausstellungen:
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 A COMMON SPACE, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2007 ABOVE THE BELT, Studioswan, Atlanta, GA
FAMILY VALUES, Gallery 31 North, Glen Gardner, NJ
2006 LOOSE LIPS -Drawing exhibition. Zihlka Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.
BIRDLAND, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN.
2005 FAMILY VALUES, WeissPollack Gallery, NY, NY
2003 VACATION, Spike Gallery, NY, NY
MY FRIENDS, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN.
2002 BACK TO SCHOOL, The Children’s Museum of the Arts, NY, NY (Publication and tee shirt design)
2001 Ballard Featherston Gallery, Seattle, WA
THIRD GRADE, John Elder Gallery, NY, NY
2000 Bachelier-Cardonsky, Kent, CT
1999 WAX WORKS, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
1997 DRAWINGS - Mia Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
1995 Mia Gallery, Seattle WA
1994 Diana Burke Gallery, NY, NY
1993 Mia Gallery, Seattle, WA
1990 Art Rages, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1988 Primitivo Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 HOMESITES, Arts Council of San Mateo County, Belmont, CA
CHAIRS, Clodagh, Ross, Williams Gallery, NY, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 CONFRONTATIONAL CERAMICS, curated by Judith Schwartz, Westchester Arts Council, Westchester, NY
2007 FORMS OF OPULENCE- Allen Gallery. New York, NY
HAVE A SEAT! -The Beylerian Collection of Small Chairs June 28 - October 28,
The Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
RED- Curated by Richard Notkin. Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
THE INNER CHILD- The Hunterdon Museum of Art, Hunterdon, NJ
2006 FIGURATIONS Sopa Gallery, Kelona, BC, Canada
MOTHERHOOD: THE MYTH, THE MAGIC, THE MADNESS”- curated
By Leslie Matthews. Design for Living Gallery, Phila. PA.
2005 "NEW TALENT 2005", Co-curated by the Museum of Ceramic Art New
York (MOCA/NY) and WEISSPOLLACK Gallery. NY, NY
3RD WORLD CERAMICS BIENNALE 2005, Ceramics: The Vehicle of Culture,
Invitational exhibition, Icheon, Korea (Catalogue)
2004 PULP FICTION, bahdu bahdee, Phila. PA
2003 ENCAUSTIC BIENNIAL 2003, juried exhibition, Poughkeepsie, NY (Catalogue)
2002 PUSHING CLAY, Univ of Southern Maine. Portland, Maine
2001 ENCAUSTICS BIENNIAL - Kingston, NY (Catalogue)
1998 NEW TALENT, John Elder Gallery, NY, NY
1996 INTIMATE CONVERSATIONS, The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
1995 NEW YORK CLAY - Traveling exhibition, Stavanger, Norway
1994 VIEWPOINTS, Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
NEW GENERATION, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1993 HEADS OR TAILS - Mia Gallery, Seattle, WA
1992 CHAIRS, Gallery of Functional Art, Santa Monica, CA
FIGURATIVE CERAMICS, Mia Gallery, Seattle, WA
1991 AND ALL THROUGH THE HOUSE, Gallery of Functional Art, Santa Monica, CA
1990 SIGNS OF SUPPORT - FURNITURE FORMS IN CONTEMPORARY ART
John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
1988 ARTIST'S FURNITURE INVITATIONAL, Wita Gardiner Gallery, San Diego, CA
THE AESTHETIC EDGE, Corvalis Art Center, Corvallis, OR
IMAGINARY LANDSCAPES, Primitivo Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987 VIEWING THE FIGURE, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
1986 INAUGURAL EXHIBITION, Clodagh, Ross, Williams Gallery, NY, NY
CHAIRS, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA
1984 INTROSPECTIVES - AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WORK BY WOMEN - Pyramid Art Center, Rochester, NY
1983 THE AMERICAN CLAY NATIONAL, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
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