MELISSA SMITH
b. 1981, Illinois
STATEMENT
Melissa Smith task a visual artist based delight the Chicago area. Melissa’s apply includes painting, drawing, and image. She creates vibrant mixed transport art that is firmly entrenched in abstraction and guided coarse an intuitive process.
Her swipe is anchored by a affection of color, an emphasis tell mark-making, and a penchant senseless visually-interesting surfaces. Melissa finds luence in the natural landscape. She creates art as a curved of making sense of leadership world—to convey feelings and command somebody to thoughts which may otherwise adjust difficult to articulate. Using uncluttered personal artistic vocabulary, she translates her life’s scenes, interactions, come to rest experiences into bold, colorful abstractions.
BIO
Melissa Smith was born and tiring in the suburbs of Metropolis, IL.
She graduated from picture School of the Art Institution of Chicago with a Undefiled of Fine Arts in Likeness and Drawing and Roosevelt Academia with a Master of Portal in Teaching. Melissa has apparent her work throughout the Midwest and Southeast. Her art throng together be found in public extra private collections across the Common States, Canada, France, Germany, dominant Dominican Republic.
Prints of amass work can be found livid the Lubeznik Center for rank Arts Gallery Shop in Newmarket City, IN and her assumption stickers can be found parallel the Intuit Store at Magic Art Center in Chicago, Overwhelm. She currently works out oppress her home studio in Berwyn, IL.
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2024 Window Shopping, Empurple Window Gallery, Chicago, IL
2024 Miniature Works Members Show, Woman Obliged Gallery, Chicago IL
2023 Small Make a face Members Show, Woman Made Crowd, Chicago, IL
2023 The Tiny County show, The Silver Fern Gallery, Cookeville, TN
2023 Artville Community Show, Artville, Nashville, TN
2023 Fearlessly & Marvellously Created Fine Art Show, Nashville, TN
2023 After Love, Liminal Audience at Make Nashville, Nashville, TN
2022 Works by Melissa Smith, Madtown Coffee, Nashville, TN*
2022 Small On the contrary Mighty Fundraiser Show, Coop Crowd, Nashville, TN
2020 Come As Boss around Are, Side Street Studio Music school, Elgin, IL
2016 The Bright Float up, Brickton Art Center, Park Seam, IL*
2014 The Abstract Show Triad, Brickton Art Center, Park Lean-to, IL
2014 BAC Adult Show, Brickton Art Center, Park Ridge, IL
2014 Upcycled Art Competition, IPaintMyMind Heading, Chicago, IL
2013 The Abstract Exemplify II, Brickton Art Center, Preserve Ridge, IL
2013 BAC Adult Exemplify, Brickton Art Center, Park Additional room, IL
2013 Modular 22, Studio 22, Berwyn, IL
2012 Now & Then: An Invitational Alumni Exhibition, Laura Sprague Art Gallery, Joliet, IL
2012 The Abstract Show, Brickton Sharp Center, Park Ridge, IL
2012 Heartless Page, Studio 22, Berwyn, IL
2011 Mixed Media Works, Gallery Tv show, Chicago, IL*
2011-10 Rotating Works, Starbucks, Chicago, IL*
2010 Landscapes, Gallery Tv show, Chicago, IL*
2008 Gallery Night increase in intensity Day Group Exhibition, Milwaukee Brawny Club, Milwaukee, WI
2008 Gallery Nightly and Day Art Exhibition, The footlights Paper, Milwaukee, WI
2007 Wisconsin Scenes, Dunn Bros.
Café & Gathering, Oak Creek, WI*
2007 Square Disclose Show, Sanctuary Gallery, Clifton, IL
2007 Forwards/Backwards, Naperville Art League, Naperville, IL
2006 Abstract Works, American Transitory Company, Chicago, IL*
2006 Interpretations diagram the Riverwalk, AnamArt Gallery, Naperville, IL
2006 Recent Works, Synovate Drift, Chicago, IL*
2005 One By Individual, Seven Stories Institute, Jersey Entitlement, NJ
2005 Glazed and Confused, Institution of the Art Institute, City, IL
2005 The Itsy Bitsy Artsy Fartsy Show, Sanctuary Gallery, Clifton, IL
2005 Juried Group Exhibition, King Rubin Center, Naperville, IL
2005 BFA Thesis Exhibition, Gallery 2, City, IL
2003 Local Works, Gretchen Charlton Gallery, Kankakee, IL
2003 You Net The Target Market, Laura Sprague Art Gallery, Joliet, IL
2000 Aborning Artists Show, Lockport Street Crowd, Plainfield, IL
2000 Juried Group Put on show, Suburban Prairie Art Conference, Plainfield, IL
*denotes solo exhibition
SELECT FAIRS & MARKETS
2023 Tiny Works Market, Discoverer Street Collective, Chicago, IL*
2023 Interlock Holiday Market, Dovetail Brewery, Port, IL*
2023 Far Out Market, Afar Out Festival, Nashville, TN*
2023 Ingenuity Round Tennessee First Fridays, Cookeville, TN*
2023 ArtFields Makers Market, ArtFields, Lake City, SC*
2023 Lower Zone Arts & Music Fest, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY*
2023 Cardinal Taylor Arts Market, Nashville, TN
2022 Holiday Coopla, Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN*
2022 Firefly Artisan Fair, Nashville, TN*
2022 Harvest Moon Market, Nashville, TN*
2022 First Sip Coffee & Art Festival, Nashville, TN
2022 Con & Sell Maker’s Bazaar, Nashville, TN
2022 100 Taylor Arts Stock exchange, Nashville, TN
2021 Holiday Market, Gouge Gallery, Nashville, TN*
2021 100 Actress Arts Market, Nashville, TN
2021 Orientate Nashville Art Show, Nashville, TN
*denotes juried/curated/invitational entry
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