2024 in a nutshell
2024 was a huge year of collaborations, exhibitions and art fairs.
MELHOP GALLERY º7077 produced 12 solo exhibitions, 3 group shows, 1 art fair and PBS filmed a podcast and an ARTEFFCTS episode of our series Far Beyond the Walls.
2024 started off with the loss of our dear friend and brilliant artist Galen Brown.
OCD, drawing, 6 x 6 foot diameter, pencil on museum board, circa 1992 - 2019. Galen Brown
In collaboration with the Nevada State Prison Preservation Society, we produced a series of 11 solo exhibitions, and 2 group shows inside the decommissioned Nevada State Prison complex.
Solo Exhibitions include:
LISA JARRETT - OFF RECORD
GIAMPIERO ASSUMMA - OTHER WORLD
JENNIFER GARZA-CUEN - IMPRINTS & ABSTRACTIONS
KEVIN BARRON - ALCHEMY
GLYNN CARTLEDGE - P2P - PRISONERS TO PAPERDOLLS
SHAUN GRIFFIN - NO CHARITY IN THE WILDERNESS
ISMAEL SANTILLANES - INDELICATE ANGELS
Poetry recital by Ismael Santillanes in Cell Block E
GIA DREYER - SOUNDSCAPE
in collaboration with Glynn Cartledge and Jennifer Garza-Cuen
Installation Images from Imprints & Abstractions by Jennifer Garza-Cuen
ROMAN DE SALVO - CORNER COLONIES
ASHLEY BROCK - BREEDING ENTROPY
HARUN FAROCKI - IMAGES OF PRISON AND CONVICTS VIDEOS
Kindly loaned by the Farocki Institute, Germany.
A LONELY BUOY - GROUP EXHIBITION OF POETRY
INVISIBLE NATION - GROUP EXHIBITION
Artwork by currently incarcerated people in collaboration with Teddie Craig
FRANCES MELHOP - TENDER MATERIAL
SOLO EXHIBITION CURATED BY MARIA SORENSEN, DIENSTEGEBÄUDE ART SPACE, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND
UnSaid group Exhibition. Zurich, Switzerland
In collaboration with OnCurating Project Space, curators; Maria Sorensen, Lara Sutter, Lynn Guo, Frances Melhop + Melhop Gallery, Evgenia Kostinskaia, and Zahira Mozafari presented their latest exhibition
UnSaid. Dienstegebäude Art Space, Zurich, Switzerland
This group exhibition features work from artists in authoritarian and democratic countries and is a joint reflection on the relationship between censorship and repressive mechanisms at play. It dwells on the issues of self-censorship, power dynamics and things we often don’t say or simply can’t.
Artwork by Lynn Guo referencing Shanglin FU and the forbidden words…
Art Fair NYC
BOOTH E18. Paintings by Richard Glick, Embroideries by Stewart Easton, monotype with stitching by Frances Melhop
Keyboard Fantasies embroideries by Stewart Easton
Small works on paper by Julia Schwadron Marianelli. acrylic ink on paper, 6 x 6”, 2024