THE SECRETS OF SELF MASTERY
Julia Schwadron Marianelli’s solo show is open!
Secrets of Self Mastery no.3, 2009, oil, acrylic, charcoal & graphite on linen, 102” x 66”
Julia writes, Painting has been my way of searching for meaning, layering images that reference both mental and perceptual landscapes, and interrogating notions of how we understand our shifting individual and cultural environments.
Schwadron Marianelli is a painter from New York City who relocated to Lake Tahoe 8 years ago.
She is now faculty of the Fine Arts Department, and the Assistant Director for the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Sierra Nevada University. Her paintings have been written about in multiple publications including The Brooklyn Rail, The Bangkok Post, and Contemporaryartdaily.com. Schwadron Marianelli’s artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She was a Visiting Professor of Painting and Artist in Residence at Chiang Mai University from 2010 – 2011, and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting at the University of Iowa from 2007-2009. She was a founding member of the “Matzo Files,” an artist flat file project inside Streit’s Matzo store on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 2004.
Schwadron Marianelli received a Joan Mitchell fellowship in 2006. She completed her BA in Studio art at UC San Diego in 1998 and her MFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art in 2004.
She currently lives and works in South Lake Tahoe with her husband and two kids.
The solo exhibition Secrets of Self Mastery, runs until May 31 2021. Open by appointment only, contact frances@melhopgallery.com to schedule a visit...
What’s Left Over #4, #3, #5 and #6, 2006, oil on linen, 54” x 90”
ARTIST NEWS
Julia Schwadron Marianelli
Schwadron Marianelli has been awarded an Interlude residency for the month of July
https://www.interluderesidency.com
...and stay tuned for a 3-person exhibition coming up at Churchill Arts Center in Fallon, Nevada with beloved expat Nevadans Nate Clark and Michelle Lassaline!
https://www.churchillarts.org/2020-21/JuliaSchwadronMarianelli.php
BEGIN/END (winter) (2019), acrylic ink on paper, 28 × 19.5 inches; Right: Big Meadow (2020), acrylic ink on paper, 74 × 41.5 inches
INTRODUCING A NEW ARTIST
Kelly Popoff
Artist and educator, Kelly Popoff, was born in Akron, Ohio and lives and works in Greenfield, MA. Kelly’s recent honors include: Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Drawing 2020, The Clowes Fund Fellowship and Residency, Vermont Studio Center 2019, Millay Colony Fellow 2018, The Artist’s Resource Trust Fellowship and Residency, Vermont Studio Center 2017, The Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Grant 2017, a Promise Award from the Sustainable Arts Foundation 2016, Finalist Award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Painting 2016. Recent solo shows include At Home with Our Histories at The University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, O Children at Herter Gallery, The University of Massachusetts and Rock on Doily at Augusta Savage Gallery, The University of Massachusetts. Kelly has exhibited in international group shows including shows curated by jurors such as Carter E. Foster (Curator of Drawing at the Whitney Museum of American Art), Richard Klein (Director of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), Trenton Doyle Hancock (contemporary artist), Camilo Alvarez of Samson Projects, Rachel Wolff (art critic and writer) and Deborah Rockman (contemporary artist).
American Snapshot installation
American Snapshot #20 ink on found paper, dipped in beeswax 5.5 x 4 inches each (with some variation) 2021
MORE ARTIST NEWS
Eunkang Koh
Faces in a Crowd, Collaboration work between Eunkang Koh and Matthew Weidmann, will be shown at Rund gallery in Seoul, South Korea from June1-30 in 2021.
More info : http://www.rundgallery.com
Koh is soon teaching 2 drawing workshops hosted by Nevada Humanities
https://www.nevadahumanities.org/events/2021/4/21/wonders-of-nature-exploring-the-beauty-of-bird-feathers-using-gouache-and-pen-with-eunkang-koh
https://www.nevadahumanities.org/events/2021/4/25/wonders-of-nature-exploring-the-beauty-of-bird-feathers-using-gouache-and-pen-with-eunkang-koh
Both workshops can be found on the Nevada Reads page:
https://www.nevadahumanities.org/nevada-reads
Miya Hannan
Hannan was awarded on Open Air Residency for June 2021.
https://www.openairmt.org/
Megan Berner interview - Art in Embassies
https://art.state.gov/portfolio/3q-megan-berner/
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Megan writes; much of my previous work deals with mapping and claiming territory. We all have different places that we can claim to be our own in various ways because of our unique experiences there. The idea of place becomes much more internalized and individual. My work is as much about fantasy and the idea that a map or photograph is merely an interpretation and representation of something, an internal experience of place.
Cyanotypes are a very direct way of working with the light in the desert. While in the field, I collected plants in various locations and created direct prints from them, creating a catalog of some of the flora. The lines of the plants are almost like drawings.
Cactus Cyanotypology, Edition of 10, archival pigment print on Somerset Velvet 17” x 22” 800 unframed
WORK IN PROGRESS
Claire Scully
Having just finished a commission for 200 + drawings, Claire Scully is back to work on her urban environment series, some of which may be included in her solo exhibition at Melhop Gallery º7077 in July 2021.
Highgate Wood pen and ink, Claire Scully
Galen Brown
After a monumental studio move, a museum solo show (Nevada Museum of Art), a solo at the Melhop Gallery, and any number of other events... Galen Brown is finally able to get back to work!!!!
Waves (Blue over pink) 5 5/8" x 7 13/16" mounted on aluminum on wooden frame
Stewart Easton
New quilt "YES" by Stewart Easton, with an upcoming solo exhibition with us in June 2021
YES Quilt 2 meters x 1.5 meters approx
FROM THE FLAT FILES
Selfie #1 Galen Brown 24” x 24” edition of 5. Archival pigment print on Canson etching rag cotton, 900 (1 available unframed)
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