American painter (born 1946)
Melissa Meyer (born May 4, 1946) is an American painter.[ 1] The Wall Street Journal has referred to her as a "lighthearted Abstract Expressionist ".[ 2]
Life and work
Meyer received a fellowship at the American Academy in Rome in 1980,[ 3] two National Endowment for the Arts grants (1983, 1993), the National Academy 183rd Invitational Eric Isenburger Annual Award (2008) and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2009).[citation needed ] In the late 1970s Meyer and Miriam Schapiro collaborated on a Heresies article entitled femmage [fr ] .[ 4] [ 5]
In 1997 her sketchbooks were published in facsimile by the Mezzanine Gallery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art .[ 6]
Melissa Meyer's paintings and works on paper are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art ,[ 7] The Metropolitan Museum of Art ,[ 8] The Brooklyn Museum ,[ 9] and The Jewish Museum ,[ 10]
References
^ "Melissa Meyer" . Artnet . Retrieved 4 July 2021 .
^ Esplund, Lance. “The Lighthearted Abstract Expressionist and Other New York Gallery Shows Worth Seeing.” The Wall Street Journal, February 21, 2009.
^ Annual Exhibition, American Academy in Rome, 21 May – 12 June 1981, Litografia BRUNI, Rome, Italy: 1981.
^ Schapiro, Miriam and Meyer, Melissa. “Waste Not, Want Not: Femmage.” Heresies 1:4 (Winter 1977–1978).
^ "Daughters of the Revolution: Women & Collage - Pavel Zoubok Gallery | New York" . www.pavelzoubok.com . Archived from the original on 2009-08-07.
^ Sketchbooks 1993-1995. Texts by Allan Gurganus and Robert Klitzman . Printed by Stamperia Valdonega, Verona, Italy. The Mezzanine Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY: 1997.
^ "Melissa Meyer" . The Museum of Modern Art . Retrieved 4 July 2021 .
^ "Melissa Meyer" . Metropolitan Museum of Art . Retrieved 4 July 2021 .
^ "Melissa Meyer" . Brooklyn Museum . Retrieved 4 July 2021 .
^ "Melissa Meyer" . The Jewish Museum . Retrieved 4 July 2021 .
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