{"id":5480,"date":"2017-02-22T11:31:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T16:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=5480"},"modified":"2018-05-25T02:59:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T06:59:52","slug":"melissa-stern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/melissa-stern\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Stern"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8770\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5480-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/melissastern.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/melissastern.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/melissastern.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5483 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Headshot-BW-alison.jpg?resize=300%2C280&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Headshot-BW-alison.jpg?resize=300%2C280&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Headshot-BW-alison.jpg?w=513&amp;ssl=1 513w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/melissa-stern.com\/\">Melissa<\/a> has worked in both sculpture and drawings for over twenty years, living and exhibiting in California, Europe, and New York City.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With a background in anthropology, Melissa\u2019s work reflects both non-Western and outsider art influences. Her drawings, collages, and figurative sculptures are characterized by their richly drawn and deeply layered surfaces, as well their quirky, often dark humor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI work like a handyman cobbling together drawings and sculptures from elements found, borrowed, and imagined. I use a wide range of materials from encaustic to clay, pastel to steel. The drawings and sculptures, often made in tandem, resonate with one another, the ideas in one reinforcing the themes of the other. All of my pieces share a thematic thread.\u00a0 Childlike and goofy my figures live in a dream world, cower in relationships or stand tall in the face of adversity. They are at once dark and funny, expressive of the absurd world around them.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Stern\u2019s sculpture and drawing has been exhibited widely in both museums and galleries throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Her multi-media installation project,<a href=\"http:\/\/thetalkingcureproject.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0<i>The Talking Cure<\/i><\/span><\/a>, has been touring U.S. museums since 2012.\u00a0 The work has been featured on PBS, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, ArtNews and was a featured invited presentation of the Spoletto Festival in Charleston SC It is currently on exhibit at The Wiseman Art Museum in Minneapolis, where it will reside until April 2017.\u00a0\u00a0Stern\u2019s art reviews and cultural commentary are featured regularly in Hyperallergic, the Brooklyn-based digital arts publication.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She has work in private and public collections, including. The International Center for Collage, The Library of Congress, rare book collection, The Arkansas Art Center, Stavanger Museum, Stavanger Norway, The Museum of Art and Design in NYC and News Corporation, and JP Morgan.\u00a0 Her work has been reviewed in ARTnews, The Wall Street Journal, The Hartford Courant, The Chicago Tribune, The Memphis Commercial Appeal and NY Arts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She is currently reading two books-<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scott_Anderson_(novelist)\"><span class=\"s2\"> The Man Who Tried to Save the World\u00a0<\/span><\/a>\u00a0by Scott Anderson) and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/authors\/240287\/marlon-james\"><span class=\"s2\"> A Brief History of Seven Killings\u00a0<\/span><\/a>by Marlon James\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5484\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5484\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5484 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/A4_Half-life.jpg?resize=625%2C491&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"625\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/A4_Half-life.jpg?resize=1024%2C805&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/A4_Half-life.jpg?resize=300%2C236&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/A4_Half-life.jpg?resize=768%2C603&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/A4_Half-life.jpg?resize=624%2C490&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/A4_Half-life.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HALF LIFE- 2015- 13 x 13.5 x 3 inches Clay, wood, paper, paint, charcoal, oil stick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5485\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5485 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Conversation.jpg?resize=625%2C843&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"625\" height=\"843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Conversation.jpg?resize=759%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 759w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Conversation.jpg?resize=222%2C300&amp;ssl=1 222w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Conversation.jpg?resize=768%2C1036&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Conversation.jpg?resize=624%2C842&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Conversation.jpg?w=1112&amp;ssl=1 1112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CONVERSATION, 2012- &#8211; 28 x 7.5 x 7.5(each), clay, graphite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/melissastern.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listMelissa has worked in both sculpture and drawings for over twenty years, living and exhibiting in California, Europe, and New York City.\u00a0 With a background in anthropology, Melissa\u2019s work reflects both non-Western and outsider art influences. 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