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Melissa Stern The Green Room, 2017 Oil paint, collage, clay, graphite 20h x 20w in
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Melissa Stern Strange Girls, 2009 Oil, acrylic, ink, collage, paper mounted on canvas 30h x 37w in
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Melissa Stern Stiff, 2018 clay, ink, pellon, encaustic, wood, crayon 30h x 9w x 8d in
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Melissa Stern Fishnets, 2017 Collage, graphite, oil stick 12h x 18w x 1.50d in
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Melissa Stern Three Gals, 2018 Wood, clay, objects, paper, paint 9.50h x 13.50w x 5d in
Exhibition
Melissa Stern: Strange Girls
11 Oct 2018 – 11 Nov 2018
Event times
Open Tuesday - Saturday 11-6
Cost of entry
free
Address
- 547 West 27th Street
- Suite 207
- New York
New York - 10001
- United States
Melissa Stern: Strange Girls, is an exhibition featuring the artist’s evocative and dark-witted works. Stern works across all media to include assemblage, ceramics, painting, drawings and collage. This is Stern’s ninth solo show in NYC.
About
In Strange Girls, Melissa Stern explores the definition of girlhood as a state of
being and state of mind. Stern’s sisterhood ranges from lusty pin-up girls to
minimalist, geometric bodies, embracing all within the loving arms of femininity
and oddity. Though all share an innate formal elegance, each is afflicted by a
sense of imbalance and loss: figures stride proudly as they are bisected by their
frames, and voluptuous, fishnet-clad legs are severed from their bodies. In
Stern’s fantasyland, girlhood is juxtaposition: beauty afflicted by the melancholy
of insufficiency. The work hits an emotional soft spot in all of us, echoing our
desire to belong to the norm. “We are all strange girls,” says Stern, “We all harbor
some memory of feeling like an outsider, a stranger.”
