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Melissa Herrington

Nationality: American
Birth Year: 1975
Birth Place: N/A
Current Region: West

Represented By: Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary

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Biography

EDUCATION

2008 Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California MFA candidate, Stu...More


Artist Statement

My art functions as a lens through which I can see the world from diverse perspectives and in unlikely ways. Brought up by my mother, two aunts, and a grandmother, I had a unique childhood that instilled in me the importance of education and imagination, contributing to both my artistic views and my drive to purse them.


My work, partly in response to the influences of my childhood, examines the theme of identity based on folklore and shared stories.  There is a sense of familiarity and distance that creates cohesive surface tension. These elements have dual characteristics, with imagery that possess historical objectivity to a playful, feminist subjectivity.




I apply a critical mythological approach to my work, striving to create an authentic process of arriving at new meaning. At first sight, my images seem simple. Often they are shadowed figures, carvings, and primitive drawings using acrylic mixed media and created on a wood support. I work, however, to reduce singular events to their essence, to amalgamate disparate elements and details in an effort to reveal their origins.


I try to capture the way events might be perceived through a memory. Certain things maybe recalled and described in exquisite detail, but other information is forgotten, lost, or obscured.


Along with my struggle to maintain an intense degree of critical awareness of the broadening intellectual and cultural components of fine art, I am always reevaluating the significance of my work while determining what I can do more effectively.  I look forward to enhancing my artistic development, both technically and aesthetically through questioning and improving my current painting practices. It is particularly important to me that I enhance my proficiency in handling the visual aspects of objects and imagery in my work in order to strike a balance between theoretical and non-linear narrative concerns.



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  • Mixed Media (2)
  • Animals + Wildlife (1)
  • Children (1)
  • Abstract (1)
  • $3,000.00 - 7,500.00 (2)
  • Contemporary (1)
  • Art Deco (1)