FRANCES MELHOP
artist + curator + art gallery director
Born: Christchurch, New Zealand
Lives and Works: Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA
Education
2023 CAS Curatorial Practices, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
2020 MFA, Photography, Printmaking, and Painting, University of Nevada, Reno
2017 BA, Studio Arts, Photography, Painting and Art History, University of Nevada, Reno
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Visible Mending, solo exhibition, Motomoto Gallery, Arao, Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan
Timekeeper, solo exhibition, Reno Tahoe International Art Fair, Reno, NV. USA
2024 tender material, curated by Maria Sorensen, Dienstgebäude Art Space, Zurich, Switzerland
2021 Losing Touch, Melhop Gallery º7077, Zephyr Cove, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA
2020 in the middle of this nowhere, MFA thesis exhibition, Jot Travis Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
2019 New Crop, 2-person show, Mark Combs and Frances Melhop, Capital City Arts Initiative, Court House Gallery, Carson City, NV, USA
2018 Vanish, MFA Midway Advancement to Candidacy Exhibition, Jot Travis Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
2017 The Comstock Portrait Project 2013-2017, Haldan Gallery, Lake Tahoe Community College, Lake Tahoe, CA, USA
2016 Telling Tales, Sierra Arts Foundation Gallery, Reno, USA
2013 Down the Rabbit Hole, St Mary’s Art Center, Virginia City, NV, USA
2012 Submerge, Duo Scorpio CD Release, The DiMenna Centre for Classical Music, New York, NY, USA
2009 Times of Transformation, Arthaus66, New Mexico, USA 2006 Tall Tales, Cannes Film Festival, Arista Gallery, Cannes, France
2006 Tall Tales, Cannes Film Festival, Arista Gallery, Cannes, France
2005 Case Abandonnati, Premiata Showroom, Milan, Italy
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Women Pulling at The Threads of Social Discourse: Don’t be Absurd, CAMP (Contemporary Art Modern
Project) Gallery, Palm Beach, Miami, FL. USA
Layers of Reiteration, co-curated by Candace Garlock and Melhop, Sierra Arts Gallery, Reno, NV, USA
Shrines and Portals, SCOPE Art Fair Miami, FL, USA
54th Annual Art Faculty Exhibition at Truckee Meadows Community College, NV, USA
Honeycomb, travelling exhibition, curated by Candace Garlock, NV Humanities Gallery, Las Vegas, NV, USA
2024 UnSaid, curated by Maria Sorensen, Dienstgebäude Art Space, Zurich, Switzerland
Origen Compartido, curated by David Miranda, Radio28CS Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
53rd Annual Art Faculty Exhibition at Truckee Meadows Community College, NV, USA
Disappearing Birds project by Jen De Los Reyes, Co Prosperity Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA.
Affordable Art Fair NYC, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY, USA.
2023 52nd Annual Art Faculty Exhibition at Truckee Meadows Community College, NV, USA
2022 TTL Teeny Tiny Trifecta. Jury Selection Committee: Tori Cherry, Ashon Crawley, Diana Nelson, Neal Rock, Darryl Smith, and Hagan Tampellini.
Second street Gallery. Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
JULIA MARGARET CAMERON AWARDS 2022, Women Seeing Women 2022, Tintype Self #16 from the Obscurations series, Barcelona, Spain
EYE want candy, summer group exhibition, Melhop Gallery º7077, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA
Wedge Outside the Box, Dolls and Effigies, JTB gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
FACULTY EXHIBITION, Whispers Across Time series, Haldan Gallery, Lake Tahoe Community College, South Lake Tahoe, CA, USA
2021 Cat Art Show LA, “A New Beginning,” “Cat Hat” image 2008-2021, curated by Susan Michals at the Golden Pagoda, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Shelter, Melhop Gallery º7077, inaugural exhibition of the gallery, Zephyr Cove, Lake Tahoe, NV, USA
Pulse, a collection of works organized around a theme of the gathering, or movement of energy. HSH Interiors, Truckee, CA, USA
2020 Obscurations, Social Distance Gallery, MFA virtual exhibition created by Benjamin Cook, USA
2019 Placed/Displaced Exhibition, Rocky Mountain Printmaking Alliance, Arizona State University, AZ, USA
Air New Zealand - Kiwis In LA, Annual juried group show, Mourning Piece, 18th St Art Center, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Home, jurors Mia Dalglish and Lisa Woodward for the SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, USA
Between Plate and Paper, McKinley Art Center, Reno, NV, USA
No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man, Cincinnati Art Museum, OH, USA
Persistence, in honor of Women’s History Month, juried by Lori Pratico, founder of Girl Noticed, at The D’Art Center, Norfolk, VA, USA
Translating Silver City: Artwork from the Permanent Collection of the Resident Artist Program in Silver City, Nevada, USA
The Magic Silver Show: The Elena Diane Curris Juried Photography Exhibition, juried by Bradly Dever Treadaway, Fulbright Scholar to Italy, Faculty member
and Digital Media Coordinator at The International Center of Photography in New York City. Clara M. Eagle Gallery at Murray State University, KY, USA
Contemporary Voices in Photography, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Juror: Aline Smithson, founder of the online photography
journal LENSCRATCH. RICPA gallery, 118 N. Main St. Providence, RI, USA
Off the Press: Tahoe/Reno Area Printmakers, Haldan Gallery, Lake Tahoe Community College, Lake Tahoe, CA, USA
Existence: SELF-PRESENCE, Whittemore Gallery, , University of Nevada, Reno, USA
2018 Sum of the Parts, MFA Review Exhibition, MFA Review exhibition, Jot Travis Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
5th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography, Barcelona, Spain
Air New Zealand - Kiwis In LA, Annual juried group show, Santa Monica Art Studios, Santa Monica, CA, USA
The Wind Calls, The Brick Gallery, Capital City Arts Initiative, Carson City, NV, USA
City of Trembling Leaves, Jot Travis Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
2017 Annual Student Art Show, University of Nevada, Reno. Juried by Garth Johnson, curator of ceramics at the ASU Art Museum in Tempe, Arizona, USA
Paradoxical Existence, The Comstock Portrait Project 2013-2017 MFA Review exhibition, Jot Travis Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
A Sense of Place 36th Annual National Juried Fine Art Competition Exhibition at the Gertrude Herbert Institute in Augusta, Georgia, curated by Michael Rooks of
the High Museum in Atlanta, USA
Meed1 juried exhibition, at Gallery19 Chicago, IL, USA, curated and juried by Jennifer Murray, Executive Director of Filter Photo
Comstock Portrait, 9th juried Pollux Exhibition, curated by Julio Hirsch-Hardy, Managing Director and Senior Curator of the International Biennial of Fine Art
and Documentary Photography, at Valid Foto, Barcelona, Spain
45th International Art Show, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, Brownsville, Texas. Juried by Cesar Martinez of San Antonio, Angel Cabrales of El Paso, and
Annie Moye of Atlanta, Georgia
2016 Infinity Jot Travis Gallery University of Nevada, Reno, USA. Juried by Mark Van Proyen, Art critic and Associate Professor at the San Francisco Art Institute
2015 Out on a Limb Mathewson Knowledge Center, University of Nevada, Reno
2013 Animal Fairy Tales, Fables, Fact or Fiction, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, USA
Art Nevada St Mary's Art Center, Virginia City, NV, USA
Arte Contemporanea, Abitart Gallery, Rome, Italy
Marionette, Abitart gallery, Rome, Italy
Tales selected works, ArtBlast McKinley Arts Center, Reno, USA
EdibleArt, Artspace Gallery Reno, USA
Pinhole works, Art Caffè Letterario, Rome, Italy
2012 Art on The Hill, Artown, selection from the “Ancient Olives” series, Reno, USA
2011 Bianco Nero, Vista gallery, Rome, Italy
2010 Ancient Olive Trees series, MIRA, Vecchio Frantoio, Pallazzo Palmieri, Martignano, Italy
Ancient Olive Trees series, MIRA Martignano International Artists Residency, Accademia di Belle Arte, Lecce, Italy
Pinhole Camera Visionaries, Lagniappe Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
Ghost Girl, Arthaus66, New Mexico, USA
Waterbabe, Globe, Milano, Italy
Miniatures, Ghost Gallery and Gossamer Collective, Seattle, USA
2009 Silence, Vista Gallery, Rome, Italy
2008 Pollicina, Canon ProFashional awards, Dusseldorf, Germany
The Fairytale Continues, Arthaus66, New Mexico, USA
2007 In Teatro, Paul Maurin Gallery, Paris, France
Artist in Residence
2025 AIR Motomoto, Arao, Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan
2024 Radio 28 Creative Studios Residency, Common Threads exhibition work, Mexico City, Mexico
2022 MOMI Printmaking Residency, Sebastopol, California, USA
2021 INCAHOOTS Artist Residency, relief and monotype printmaking, Petaluma, USA
2016 Silver City Artist Residency, to produce a collection of photographic portraits, recordings of the recollections of Comstock Folk, homes and the desert environment.
Silver City, Nevada, USA
2014 St Mary’s Art Center Artist Residency, intaglio printmaking, Virginia City, Nevada, USA
2010 MIRA Artists Residency in Puglia/Salento, Italy, producing a collection of 44 traditional 4x5” black and white negatives of Olive trees circa 1000 years of age.
Contact printed on Ilford Fibre Based Paper
Awards
2025 Nevada Arts Council Artist Fellowship
Shrines and Portals, curatorial award, SCOPE Art Fair Miami, FL, USA
Timekeeper, solo exhibition booth at Reno Tahoe International Art Fair, Reno, NV, USA
Professional Development Faculty Grant, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno NV
2024 Nevada Arts Council Major project Grant for Artists
Professional Development Faculty Grant, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno NV
2022 Honorable Mention, Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Award, Obscurations series, juried by KK de Paul,
Isabela Pacini and N.A.Vague
2021 Scholarship award, INCAHOOTS Artist Residency, printmaking, Petaluma, USA
2020 Scholarship award, Social Documentary Network, InDesign for Photobooks, taught by Glenn Ruga
Honorable Mention, Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Award, Self Portrait, juried by Elizabeth Avedon
2019 Outstanding Graduate Student Award
GSA Outstanding Artist Award
Holmes Art Scholarship, University of Nevada, Reno (photography and painting)
2018 Nevada Arts Council, Professional Development Award
Oct GSA Travel Scholarship
Outstanding Graduate Student Award
April GSA Travel Scholarship
2017 Black & White Magazine Looking Back Looking Forward Award (pinhole photography)
Nevada Arts Council Jackpot Award
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Art 338 Photography, University of Nevada, Reno
Lucy Nieder MFA Scholarship, University of Nevada, Reno (photography and painting)
Holmes Art Scholarship, University of Nevada, Reno (photography and painting)
Graduate Dean’s Merit Scholarship, University of Nevada, Reno (photography and painting)
Deans List, University of Nevada, Reno
Winner of Black and White Magazine’s Alternative photography competition
Finalist in the Pollux portrait Awards
2016 Infinity award, University of Nevada, Reno (painting)
Cherie Lynn Duhart Scholarship (painting)
Jessie Dewar Scholarship (painting)
Deans List, University of Nevada, Reno
2015 Deans List, University of Nevada, Reno
Annabel Shelley Scholarship – for dedication to the Arts
2014 NNDA Comstock Innovator of the Year Award for St Mary’s Art Center
2013 Art Blast, City of Reno Best in show Award
Annabel Shelley Scholarship – for dedication to the Arts
Nevada Arts Council Jackpot Award
2010 Finalist in the Spider Black and White Awards, United Kingdom. Black and white images on 4x5” infrared film
2009 Awarded by Luerzer's Archive, title World’s 200 Best Advertising Photographers for the images for the campaign of Descamps, France 2009/2010;
nominated again 2011/2012 for Trelise Cooper Campaign NZ, and 2012/2013 for Duo Scorpio “Submerge” Images NYC, USA. Luerzers have been
compiling an archive of the World's Best Photographers, Graphic Designers and Directors for over 20 years
2008 Honorary placement in the "Canon ProFashional Awards" Germany. Selected works from the “Pollicina” series
Permanent collections
2023 Don’t Cut Your Hair It’s Beautiful, collaboration on artists book with Kellee Morgado, Redfield Fellow of the Black Rock Press, collection of the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, WA, USA
2020 Don’t Cut Your Hair It’s Beautiful, collaboration on artists book with Kellee Morgado, Redfield Fellow of the Black Rock Press, collection of the Black Rock Press, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA
2020 Collecting Community History Initiative, Autry Museum of the American West, LA, CA, USA
2019 Betwixt and Between, intaglio print, University of Utah School of Art, Salt Lake City, UT
Vanish (2 images) Magic Silver Collection, Murray State University, KY, USA
2018 Rick, from The Comstock Portrait Project, 2013-2017, to the collection of the 5th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography, Barcelona, Spain
2017 Jim McCormick from The Comstock Portrait Project 2013-2017, to the collection of Resident Artist Program in Silver City, Nevada, USA
1994 - 1999 Collaborated with Australian artist Susan Norrie on 3 exhibitions. Our photographic works appear in permanent collections such as Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NYC, USA and NSW Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Selected Press and Interviews
2024 PBS Interview Frances Melhop, Director, Melhop Gallery °7077 about the “Far Beyond the Walls” Exhibitions
Reno News & Review, Art Behind Bars. Far Beyond the Walls Exhibition feature
Double Scoop, Art Behind Bars. Far Beyond the Walls Exhibition feature
Schwingen.net UnSaid: fireworks, a porcelain soldier and a stitched mandarin. Artist/curator feature
Shoutout Arizona, 29 Jan 2024. Artist gallery Feature
Create Magazine, Frances Melhop: Exploring Tactile Mediums and the Virtual-Physical Intersection. Artist feature
2023 Artillery Magazine NYC, 18 May 2023. Curator + Gallery Feature
Create Magazine Issue 37, June/July 2023. Artist Feature + interview
Meer Magazine, May 2023, Curator + Gallery Feature
New Visionary Magazine, NYC, issue 6, May 2023. Artist Feature + interview
Arts For Hearts Magazine issue 2, April 2023. Artist Feature
2023 Double Scoop, NV Arts News, Guerrilla Gallery, Feb 2023. Curator + Gallery feature
2022 Tahoe Quarterly, A Fresh Take on Tahoe Art, interview with Kayla Anderson, nomadic gallery
Tahoe Weekly, Melhop Gallery º7077: Art with Conceptual Ethical Substance, interview with Kayla Anderson
2021 Double Scoop, NV Arts News, Long Term view, interview with Kris Vagner. (Melhop Gallery º7077)
2020 Lilley Museum, Quarantine Sessions, University of Nevada, Reno. (Obscurations, Mourning Piece)
Double Scoop, NV Arts News, interview with Josie Luciano. (Mourning Piece)
2018 Lilley Museum/University Galleries, University of Nevada, Reno (Vanish Exhibition)
2017 Reno News and Review Newspaper, Reno USA (The Comstock Portrait Project)
Reno Gazette Journal Newspaper, Reno USA (The Comstock Portrait Project)
2016 Reno News and Review Newspaper, Reno USA (Silver City Artist in Residence)
Reno News and Review NewspaperReno USA (St Mary’s Art Center Arts Program)
2010 Little Thing Magazine, China (Dollhouse)
2009 Artslant Magazine, (Times of Transformation)
Her Magazine, New Zealand, Artist Interview (selected work from Italy)
2006 Moda Lisboa, TV and Newspaper, Portugal (Sport/Animals series)
2005 Fashion TV, Milan Italy, Artist interview (Premiata campaigns)
Artist talks/ guest lectures/ juror
2024 March, Artist Gallerist talk, professional practices, University of Nevada, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA
2023 Sept, Juror Reno Tahoe Art Awards
2022 July, public panel discussion mediator with artist Zoe Bray and Museum Director Vivian Zavataro, Lilley Museum, University of Nevada, Reno
2021 April, Artist talk Saddleback College, CA, USA
April, guest lecture Saddleback College, Professional Practices class, CA, USA
March, guest lecture, Arizona State University, AZ, USA
2020 April MFA Thesis lecture, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
2019 March Artist talk, Capital City Arts Initiative, Carson City High School, Carson City, NV, USA
2017 Dec, Artist talk, Capital City Arts Initiative, Dayton High School, Dayton NV, USA
Sept, Artist talk, Lake Tahoe Community College, South Lake Tahoe, CA, USA
May, Artist talk, Lake Tahoe Community College, South Lake Tahoe, CA, USA
May, Juror, Annual Student Art Exhibition, Lake Tahoe Community College, Lake Tahoe, CA, USA
2016 Artist talk, Black Rock Press, Book Arts Department, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA
2014 Director of Non-Profit Arts Organization lecture, Dept. of Business, Sierra Nevada College, NV, USA
2012 Artist talk, Photography Department, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Additional Education
2019 ACUE Effective Teaching Practices Certificate. Association of College and University Educators. This certificate signifies my completion of a 25-module course in effective teaching practices requiring the implementation of evidence-based instructional approaches. The credential is co-issued by the American Council on Education and distinguishes faculty for their commitment to educational excellence and student success.
1991 - 1994 Technical Photography, Sydney Institute of Technology, Sydney, Australia
1986 -1988 Psychology, Political Science, Philosophy of Religion and German Literature, History and Language, Life Drawing (School of Fine Arts), UC Canterbury New Zealand
1980 - 1985 Photography, Graphic Design, Ceramics, Drawing and Printmaking at Christchurch Polytechnical Institute, while attending high school at St. Margaret’s College, Christchurch, New Zealand. School Certificate awarded, University Entrance accredited, University Bursary Scholarship awarded.
Selected Published Editorial Work
2000-2018
Vogue Pelle Italy, Vogue Gioiello Italy, Vogue Accessories Italy, Vogue China, Marie Claire Italy, Elle Portugal, Gioia Italy, Anna Italy, Casamica Italy, Sposabella Italy Edizioni Condé Nast, Glamur Slovenia, Her Magazine New Zealand
New Zealand Women’s Weekly, Little Thing Magazine China, Freundin Germany, Harp Column NYC USA
Selected Published Editorial Work
1995-2000
Vogue Australia, Vogue Entertaining, Vogue Living, Vogue Brides Australia
Good Medicine Magazine, Ragtrader Magazine, Cleo Australia, Elle Australia, Good Health Australia, Girlfriend Magazine Australia, Soup Magazine, Bride To Be Magazine, Honeymoon Guide, Good Medicine Cosmetic Surgery Guide Australia, Underground Surf Magazine Australia, Cosmopolitan Australia, She Magazine Australia, Dolly Magazine Australia , Rolling Stone Australia, Australian Women’s Weekly, Australian Women’s Forum, Australian Men’s Health, Country Style Magazine, FHM Magazine, GQ Magazine, Olympic Medalist Jane Flemming’s biography
Selected Published Advertising Work
1995-2016
Vogue Italia, Vanity Fair Italy, Face Magazine UK, iD Magazine UK, Marie Claire Italy, Vogue UK, Purple Magazine, Vogue France, Vogue Australia, D Della Republicca, Io Donna, Elle Portugal
Selected Published Editorial Work
2000-2018
Vogue Pelle Italy, Vogue Gioiello Italy, Vogue Accessories Italy, Vogue China, Marie Claire Italy, Elle Portugal, Gioia Italy, Anna Italy, Casamica Italy, Sposabella Italy Edizioni Condé Nast, Glamur Slovenia, Her Magazine New Zealand
New Zealand Women’s Weekly, Little Thing Magazine China, Freundin Germany, Harp Column NYC USA
Selected Published Editorial Work
1995-2000
Vogue Australia, Vogue Entertaining, Vogue Living, Vogue Brides Australia
Good Medicine Magazine, Ragtrader Magazine, Cleo Australia, Elle Australia, Good Health Australia, Girlfriend Magazine Australia, Soup Magazine, Bride To Be Magazine, Honeymoon Guide, Good Medicine Cosmetic Surgery Guide Australia, Underground Surf Magazine Australia, Cosmopolitan Australia, She Magazine Australia, Dolly Magazine Australia , Rolling Stone Australia, Australian Women’s Weekly, Australian Women’s Forum, Australian Men’s Health, Country Style Magazine, FHM Magazine, GQ Magazine, Olympic Medalist Jane Flemming’s biography
Selected Published Advertising Work
1995-2016
Vogue Italia, Vanity Fair Italy, Face Magazine UK, iD Magazine UK, Marie Claire Italy, Vogue UK, Purple Magazine, Vogue France, Vogue Australia, D Della Republicca, Io Donna, Elle Portugal
Other Work Experience
2020-2025 Adjunct lecturer, Art History, Art 270 Women in Art, Survey History of Art 261, Introduction to Drawing Art 101, Art 100 Visual Foundations, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, NV
2022 Adjunct lecturer, Printmaking 221A and 221B, Lake Tahoe Community College, South Lake Tahoe, CA and Introduction to Printmaking Art 124 at Western Nevada College, Carson City, NV
2020 Adjunct lecturer SOTA Introduction to the Arts, 101 Fall semester, University of Nevada, Reno
2020 Graduate Teaching Assistant Instructor of Record, Art 124, Introduction to Printmaking, Spring semester, University of Nevada, Reno
2019 Instructor of Record, Art 100, Visual Foundations, Fall semester, University of Nevada, Reno
2019 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Instructor of Record, Art 100, Visual Foundations, Spring semester, University of Nevada, Reno
2018 Instructor of Record, Art 141 Photography department, Spring and Fall semesters, University of Nevada, Reno
2017 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Art 338 Photography department, University of Nevada, Reno
2013, 2014, 2015, Executive Director/Creative Director and Curator of St Mary’s Art Center in Virginia City, a 501 (C) 3 nonprofit organization. I revived and regenerated the historic St Mary’s Art Center rebuilding a vibrant and thriving Art Center, rebranded the organization entirely, designed and populated a new website, donated professional photography and graphic design for all publicity and marketing materials, created an exciting new Resident Artist program; curated more than 30 exhibitions per year, and coordinated creative workshop/art class schedules for children and adults which are so urgently needed in Nevada. I introduced new talent to the region, show cased our own, and secured many grants and funding for the arts, programming, artists and the restoration of the building, culminating in the NNDA “Comstock Innovator of the Year” award.
Current Projects
*Founder and Director of Melhop Gallery º7077, which opened as a brick and mortar in 2019 amidst the Corona virus pandemic to provide support and an alternative virtual and physical space at Lake Tahoe, Nevada. In 2023 the gallery project went nomadic, representing 12 national and international working artists. The gallery is an artist run business presenting emerging and established artists, working in both traditional and non-traditional mediums, exhibiting new perspectives and a strong thoughtful work ethic.
*Timekeeper - The Timekeeper series hovers between embroidery, painting, drawing, and soft sculpture—each one a spiral quietly tracing time and memory. The spiral becomes a visual mantra, embodying the existential dilemma and delight of living within unstoppable time: its relentless forward motion, its circling returns, and our deeply human impulse to mark its passage. Stitch by stitch, the spiral grows outward from a central origin, echoing the cyclical nature of life and the quiet energy spirals produce. Like the rings in a tree trunk, each line of stitching maps time, emotion, and experience—capturing heartbreaks, joys, injuries, revisited again and again as the stitch line returns on itself while persistently moving forward. The humanness of each sometimes-wonky stitch is intentional, a mark of presence and vulnerability. They are records of lived time.
*Common Threads - Part of my quest to distill the essence of being human initiated these life-size monotypes. Simple pressure prints of dresses are overlaid with contour stitching of female bodies, representing freedom, love, the body, desire, and the myriad of sensations we experience. Each dress has stories and memories attached to it, held within it. These impressions are reaching for the familiar recollections absorbed into loved garments of friends and myself. We are living in a world where simulation is much of the mode of experience. The works produced in this series hold a conversation, with a similar mission to preserve and celebrate human touch, memory and physical realities. All while slowing down, sensing dreams, stories, and the passage of time, embedded in these garments.
* Rogue Nevãda - a portal for art + culture + environment www.roguenevada.com
It is an Arts, Culture and Environment site, supporting and exploring the output of artists living and working in Nevada, a large, high altitude, dry desert state in the USA. I observe and communicate how the Wild West environment in many ways informs, forges and shapes their work.