Melhop Gallery º7077 artists and crew wish you a wonderful and Happy New Year!
GALLERY NEWS
I have to say I am really quite excited about this new fresh year.
This is the first ever newsletter with gallery and artist news. The newsletter will probably go out every 2 months as new shows are installed. Please follow us on Instagram or Facebook as the new gallery progresses and see what the 9 artists have been up to. Share our page if you have a second…
For now, the gallery will operate by appointment only. As receptions are out of the question during Covid times, I am very happy to open for individual visits or to host mini gatherings for you and a small group of masked up friends (maximum of 7).
The first visits of the New Year begin this week, please let me know if you would like to schedule a gallery visit on a weekday or a weekend. Flexibility and support for artists are goals in these strange days!
Email: frances@melhopgallery.com
The current exhibition is Shelter - a group show by all 9 artists, encompassing their personal responses to the idea of home, safety and shelter. Quite frankly a subject deeply pertinent to the odd and untoward changes we have all been experiencing globally the last 9 months of 2020. Shelter runs until January 31.
UPCOMING SHOW
Galen Brown’s solo exhibition titled OCD, opens February 7, at Melhop Gallery º7077.
Galen is a local artist who grew up at Kings Beach, Lake Tahoe, and works in various media exploring ideas including mark making and the passage of time, working slowly and methodically while pushing the limits of his materials.
Untitled #3 “Circle Series” circa 1990-1996
Pencil and bees wax on white museum board mounted on wooden frame
10” x 10” x 1 1/2”
ARTIST NEWS
I would like to introduce a new artist to the gallery, Julia Schwadron Marianelli. Julia is a painter who settled at Lake Tahoe from New York City. She teaches at Sierra Nevada University and is the Assistant Director of the MFA program there. Her most recent series High Country is a reflection on living above 5000 feet, and how unique features of this particular landscape have imprinted themselves on her practice.
High Country, Night Tangle
Oil on denim
48” x 48” 2018
Julia Schwadron Marianelli
Artist Megan Berner has just received her published artist book, Good Morning.
Megan wrote,“ I photographed the sunrise out of my window for almost 8 years, until September 2019, when the last image was made. The series naturally ended when I moved out of my apartment at the Riverside Artist Lofts last year. I miss sharing these semi-daily images with the (virtual) world and wanted to compile them in a place where they can be seen together and continued to be enjoyed outside of the fleeting social media realm.”
This artist's book has over 500 photographs of the Nevada sunrise from Megan’s Instagram posts. Michael Branch, a local Nevada writer and environmentalist, wrote the foreword to the book. The book was printed at Container Corps in Portland, Oregon, in a limited edition of 200.
The signed editioned soft cover version is available from the gallery store, and it is a beautiful thing!
Megan Berner is a visual artist living and working in Reno, Nevada. Berner works with digital and experimental techniques such as instant film, digital transfers, and cyanotypes. Her work is greatly influenced by the landscape of her native Nevada home as well as the vast prairies of the Midwest, being a twin, mapping and exploration, and countless hours of daydreaming.
Good Morning by Megan Berner
A single configuration of the some of the images, is also available as a giant limited edition print 63” x 35.5” Contact frances@melhopgallery for further information.
FROM THE FLAT FILES…
This photograph is an artifact of the performance video by Jean Brennan being shown currently in the Shelter exhibition. 2 performers covered in mylar hypothermia blankets weather a snow-storm on the beach of Lake Tahoe.
I Am As I Dwell, 2017, Jean Brennan, still photograph from performance
1/3, edition of 3
16”x 24”
1500
Each print comes with a signed artist book, Tools for Excavating Virgin Snow, edition of 50, by Jean Brennan. These signed beauties are also available in the Gallery store.
Brennan is an interdisciplinary thinker, working at the intersection between ecology, language, alchemy, and the body. Recurring themes include a fascination with atmospheric forces, plants, phenomenology, and color. Using the lyrical essay as method, she loosely assembles scientific research, historical and popculture references with personal reflection, to explore our relationship to the natural world, interspecies dependency, and models of resiliency.
Jean Brennan writes,Tools for Excavating Virgin Snow is a set of tools made for a walk tracing the perimeter of an aerial bomb training site, located in an ecologically rare dwarf pine plain, during the season’s first snow. A small video camera strapped to the back of my head captured a receding landscape and the mark making action.
The research for this project began with an excavation of personal memory related to site that resulted in a field guide and lyrical essay, printed as a 5x7” booklet, Pine Barrens, NJ.
THANK YOU
To my amazing friend and mentor Jean Merkelbach without whom this gallery would still be just a dream..
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