Considero-me uma artista nómada: Ao mudar-me do Médio Oriente para os EUA e ao viajar muito, fui influenciada pela história, culturas, seus habitats naturais e métodos únicos de processamento de materiais locais.
O meu trabalho retrata a luta de poder entre as pessoas e o ambiente. “Nature, engineered” é uma série de desenhos e tecelagem de materiais fabricados e naturais em papel artesanal. Utilizo matérias-primas locais – uma flor cultivada em África, componentes eléctricos, algoritmos e sequências de genoma dos EUA – todas tecidas nas fibras naturais do papel. As minhas esculturas combinam Cholla (carcaça de cacto dos desertos do Novo México) e componentes informáticos – todos reintegrados na natureza e recuperados por ela.
…A Residência RAMA oferece uma oportunidade única de investigação sobre a vida vegetal, história e arquitectura da região – e a relação holística da cultura local com a natureza.
Dana Melamed
Born in Israel, 1972
Lives in New Jersey, works in New York
Solo Exhibitions
2020 – Natural Suspension, Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY (Cancelled due to Covid)
2017 – Waves of Discourse, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY
2014 – Behind the Grid, Stux Gallery, New York, NY
2013 – Duality of Matter, Von Lintel Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY
2012 – Off The Wall, Durst Organization, Wall Street Journal building, New York, NY
2011 – Transforming Voids, Lesley Heller Workspace, LES, New York, NY
2010 – Black Tide, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY
2008 – Rhetoric of Violence and Trauma, Durst Organization, New York, NY
2007 – Into the Vortex, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY
2006 – When Dawn Breaks, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014
– If Winter Comes, Can Spring Be Far behind?, Stux Gallery, New York, NY
– Burning Bright, Stux Gallery, New York, NY
2012
– Suspended Disbelief, Von Lintel Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY
– Fire Works, curated by Mary Birmingham, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
– One Thousand and One Nights: the narrative tradition in contemporary Middle Eastern art, curated by Nancy Einreinhofer, William Paterson University, University Art Galleries, Wayne, NJ
– Skeptical Landscapes, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2009
– Sustainable? Chen Gallery, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT
2008
– 183rd Annual Exhibition of contemporary Art, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
– Remarks on Color, Galerie Baer, Dresden, Germany
– Future Tense: Contemporary Views/Post-Utopian Landscape, Neuberger Museum of Art, Westchester, NY
– Lost Horizon, curated by David Gibson, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2006
– Go North, New Yorker!, Peekskill Project 2006, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
– Frames of Mind, The Bernnan Gallery at the Justice William Bernnan Court House, Jersey City, NJ
2005
– New Foundland: an Inagural group show ,Priska Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY
– Small Matters of Great Importance, Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY
– The Reasonably Straight Digital Photography show, Old Church Art Center, Demarest, NJ
– Cooper Union Residency show, Cooper Union, New York, NY
Public Collections
Frenkels Foundation for the Arts permanent collection
University of Michigan Museum permanent collection
Private Collections
Various collectors, US, Europe, Middle East & APAC
Residencies
2018 – MAD Museum of Art and Design Open Studio Program, New York, NY
2016 – ESKFF – Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2005 – Emerging Artists, Cooper Union, New York, NY
Education
1995 – Tel Aviv Art Design Center and Tel Aviv School of Visual Art (Vital) – Fine Art
1990 – Architectural Rendering & Drafting, Concentration on Art & Architecture History, Ort Technicum Givatayim, Israel