ABOUT
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Bio
Based out of Halifax, NS, Melanie Colosimo uses found material, graphite and paper to create large-scale sculptural drawings. Her work focuses on strong, structural materials to explore identity, liminality and progress. She received a BFA from Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB (2006) and an MFA from the University of Windsor, in Windsor, ON (2011). Her work has been screened and exhibited in festivals and galleries internationally and across Canada such as AKA Gallery (SK) the Art Gallery of Windsor (ON), the Atlantic Film Festival (NS), Eastern Edge Gallery (NL), and Mount Saint Vincent University Gallery (NS). Her work is currently travelling southern China as part of the exhibition Maud Lewis and the Nova Scotia Terrior. She has participated in a variety of residencies such as the CFAT local Artist in Residence, University of Windsor Research Residency and the Banff Centre’s Thematic Residencies and at the Vermont Studio Centre in Johnson, Vermont. Colosimo is currently the Director of the Anna Leonowens Gallery at NSCAD University in Halifax where she facilitates over 120 exhibitions a year by NSCAD visiting artists and graduating students. |
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Artist Statement:
Much of my work addresses nostalgia, community, dislocation and longing but has recently moved towards a preoccupation with traditionally masculine utilitarian imagery and themes of progress and construction. I commit to simple materials - cut paper, graphite and fabric - to create large-scale drawings and paper sculptures of fences, structures and architecture to explore memory, transitory states and trace imagery. My subjects are temporary utilitarian objects that connote construction, a ‘work in progress’ or the formative states. They are symbols of liminality, thresholds between a previous state of being and the next phase. I explore this liminal state; not only through the completion of a work but also during the phases of creation and process. My most recent body of work uses lattice towers to warn of technology’s fallibility as well as the challenges inherent to communication.
Much of my work addresses nostalgia, community, dislocation and longing but has recently moved towards a preoccupation with traditionally masculine utilitarian imagery and themes of progress and construction. I commit to simple materials - cut paper, graphite and fabric - to create large-scale drawings and paper sculptures of fences, structures and architecture to explore memory, transitory states and trace imagery. My subjects are temporary utilitarian objects that connote construction, a ‘work in progress’ or the formative states. They are symbols of liminality, thresholds between a previous state of being and the next phase. I explore this liminal state; not only through the completion of a work but also during the phases of creation and process. My most recent body of work uses lattice towers to warn of technology’s fallibility as well as the challenges inherent to communication.
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For more information: (e) mdc(at)melaniecolosimo.com CV Studio Blog Anna Leonowens Gallery (instagram) Art Bar +Projects (facebook) (instagram) |
The artist gratefully acknowledges the
support of Arts Nova Scotia.
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