Melissa Brown
Photo by Kay Hickman
Melissa Brown is a painter whose work merges contemporary technology with traditional painting and collage techniques as a means for understanding the nature of reality.
Brown uses a variety of media, including iPhone snapshots blended with stencil, impasto, and screen-printed digital photography, to create layered surfaces with depth and dimensionality. The contrast between the immediacy of digital snapshots and the more tactile, time-consuming processes of painting and collage invites reflection on how we remember, experience, and interpret the world around us.
Brooklyn, NY
Born 1974, Morristown, NJ
2000 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1999 MFA Painting and Printmaking Yale University, New Haven, CT
1996 BFA Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI