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NY- based artist Melissa Stern has been working recently in the glass school. Best know for her mixed media sculptures and drawings, Melissa has expanded her repertoire to include glass.
Melissa’s artwork is deceptive in its playful, childlike quality. Her highly imaginative (and frequently amusing) ceramic sculptures and drawings usually featuring human figures which call to mind sophisticated illustrations for children’s stories. Melissa sees her work removed from specific narrative and functioning instead in terms of psychology and metaphor. As much as we would like a ceramic standing figure–feet nailed to the floor, arms holding aloft a branch upon which large birds perch–to introduce a fascinating if disturbing fable, there is no story to explain it.
Summer in the South, collage, oil paint, pencil, 12 x 9
World View , clay, acrylic, paper, graphite, encaustic, 23″ x 5″ x 5″
Translating her drawn imagery with the use of glass frit powder, Melissa has really taken to the process, making it her own.
Melissa Stern’s fused glass frit components are assembled onto the glass panels she is creating.
Melissa and Tim Tate discuss the development of her panels.
Carving holes, tack-fusing texture, layering images – Melissa will ultimately add other non-glass elements to the glass panels she is creating.
We look forward to seeing the finished works by Melissa! And congratulations, Melissa, on becoming an adjunct professor at Brooklyn College!