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). In the late 1970s Meyer and Miriam Schapiro collaborated on a Heresies article entitled femmage.[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

  1. ↑ "Melissa Meyer". Artnet. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  2. ↑ Esplund, Lance. “The Lighthearted Abstract Expressionist and Other New York Gallery Shows Worth Seeing.” The Wall Street Journal, February 21, 2009.
  3. ↑ Annual Exhibition, American Academy in Rome, 21 May – 12 June 1981, Litografia BRUNI, Rome, Italy: 1981.
  4. ↑ Schapiro, Miriam and Meyer, Melissa. “Waste Not, Want Not: Femmage.” Heresies 1:4 (Winter 1977–1978).
  5. ↑ "Daughters of the Revolution: Women & Collage - Pavel Zoubok Gallery | New York". www.pavelzoubok.com. Archived from the original on 2009-08-07.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ "Melissa Meyer". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  8. ↑ "Melissa Meyer". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  9. ↑ "Melissa Meyer". Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  10. ↑ "Melissa Meyer". The Jewish Museum. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
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