MINT Gallery’s summer invitational exhibition From the Artist’s Collection features work from 40 Atlanta artists. You can find three of my paintings available in this show. All sales benefit the participating artists, MINT’s art center, and programs! The exhibition will be up through the end of summer.
My husband Drew Tetz and I are included in the exhibition Making A Way held by the South Bend Museum of Art. Our new series Venus de la Void is included in the first chapter of this seven-part exhibition. Chapter one, Together, features artists working collaboratively during isolation.
Please visit the show via the South Bend Museum of Art’s website: southbendart.org/see/making-a-way-together
This exhibition features artists whose work explores public versus private persona. In the age of social distancing, our social media presentation makes up a larger part of our identity than ever before. This juried exhibition takes a critical look at what having a digital identity means for us as individuals.
This exhibition is hosted entirely on Instagram! This exhibition is hosted on the IG accounts of @melissahuangart (the original curator), and on the IG accounts of our virtual gallery hosts: MINT Gallery (@mintatl), Therapeutic Artists Residency (tar.project), Georgia State University’s Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design (@gsu_artdesign), and ShowerHaus Gallery (@showerhausgallery). (If you are interested in participating as a virtual gallery host, please reach out!)
We ask artists who are curated into a show by one of our virtual gallery hosts to simply reshare each piece in the show (10-15 pieces per exhibition) in their Instagram story. We’re hoping to build on our collective social media presence as artists and the social media presences of established galleries to share this work far and wide.
Please DM @melissahuangart with questions, or email melissa@melissahuang.com.
“Don’t miss this chance to see recently created art from all over the Southeast! Southern artists are vying to have their work selected for this exhibition. The exhibition features drawings, paintings, prints, sculpture, photography, ceramics and mixed media. Curlee Raven Holton, a highly regarded professor, painter and master printmaker who has exhibited his work throughout the world, is this year’s judge. Sponsored by Callaway Foundation, Inc. and Marketplace at Lafayette Square.”
A big thank you to the Lamar Dodd Art Center of LaGrange College and to juror Curlee Raven Holton for including my work in this exhibition!
Thanks Dalton Gallery and the exhibition jurors for selecting my piece “Old Friend” for a Juror’s Choice award!
“The Dalton Gallery of Agnes Scott College presented a juried exhibition of work by young emerging artists from the Atlanta area in partnership with the Decatur Arts Alliance. &yet sought to connect and foster conversations among young artists from communities around Atlanta. Thanks to our partnership with the Decatur Arts Alliance we were able to offer a free application in an effort to create an accessible opportunity for young emerging artists from the area to experience the valuable processes of a working artist. Thanks to the James T and Ella Rather Kirk Fund we were able to award $3000 in prizes to six artists in the exhibition as selected by the Jurors and Faculty Members. Juror Pick awards were given to Melissa Huang, Benjamin Hunsinger, Celeste Nelson, and Yasha Panchal. Professors Pick awards were given to Devin Morrison and Kama Pellani. You can find the exhibition catalog here.”
“&yet featured work by 40 artists aged 18-30, from the Atlanta community, as juried by arts leaders Veronica Kessenich, Director of the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Yu-Kai Lin, Owner and Director of Kai-Lin Art, and Joseph Peragine, artist and Director of the Ernest G Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University.”
I currently have pieces in two international shows as part of Ongoing Conversation, curated by Soude Dadras.
Ongoing Conversation, Kyoto, Japan, curated by Soude Dadras
“Ongoing Conversation is a curatorial project by Soude Dadras. Over the past five years, Dadras has curated several international exhibitions in Istanbul, and Kyoto respectively. The mission of Dadras’ Ongoing Conversation is “to bring together disparate voices in the visual arts through an international purview in order to examine cross cultural similarities of the human condition.””
I have one piece on view at the Kyoto Shibori Museum:
Melissa Huang, Look, Ink on Shibori Dyed Fabric, 10″ x 8″, 2019
And one piece on view at the Kyoto International Community House (Kokoka):
Soude, Oil on panel, 11″ x 16″, 2019
Thank you Soude Dadras for your hard work putting together these exhibitions! Visit ongoingconversation.art to learn more about the exhibition, and make sure to follow them on Instagram (@ongoingconversation.art) and Facebook.
More Upstairs, PROJECT, Temporary Art Center, curated by Scott Ingram, Atlanta, GA.
“PROJECT is the inaugural exhibition presented by the Temporary Art Center. This site-specific show features dozens of Atlanta’s premier artists, as well as artists that have once called Atlanta home. As a part of PROJECT, Georgia State MFAs have transformed the second story of the Conklin Metal Building into rooms of installation work that represent their graduate body of work.”
Thank you PROJECT curator Scott Ingram for including GSU MFA students as part of this exhibition! MFAs were given spaces in the office area attached to the warehouse to do with as we saw fit. Some MFAs created gallery ready spaces, others built immersive installations. The warehouse is slated to be demolished so we were given a wide range of creative freedom.
Here are some photos of my space in the exhibition:
And some images of the other MFA spaces (and a shot of the warehouse):
PROJECT, Temporary Art Center, curated by Scott Ingram, Atlanta, GA
Coming up at The Bakery! I have a two-person exhibition with ceramic and foam sculptor Hanna Newman opening Thursday, November 7th, from 7-9pm. Stop by to see some weird and beautiful bodies. See more details below:
This summer my husband (animator/designer) Drew Tetz and I participated in a residency program called HOME Philadelphia. HOME Philadelphia is a summer residency open to current MFA students or recent graduates. Artists Michael Secor and Katie Knoeringer host MFAs for two week periods throughout the summer.
The goal of the residency is to provide the artist with an opportunity to see and explore the city of Philadelphia, either as a brief change of environment or to consider the Northeast as a potential place to live and work in the future. Stay in Michael and Katie’s house in East Kensington, North Philadelphia, a neighborhood full of artistic minds living together in a progressing, urban environment. This is a small space, ideal for making drawings and smaller work, doing research, exploring the local landscape and seeing the art scene of Philly. This residency stresses process over product, the two week period ending with an informal, public presentation, allowing the resident to share their experience and work with local artists and community.
We had an amazing time! We visited the major art museums and galleries, and managed to catch a few of our favorite local bands. I also created a series of gouache paintings on wood panel while Drew worked on several animated record projects. The residency culminated in an exhibition at the Spillway Collective gallery in the Crane Arts building.
Drew and I put together a video to share our experience. Check it out!
See my work in an upcoming exhibition, the Black Baby Project (with a detail sneak peek below!). This collaborative exhibition curated by Jamaal Barber will be shown at Gallery 650 in the 6th floor of the Arts and Humanities building at Georgia State University (10 Peachtree Center Ave NE, Atlanta, GA). The show runs from February 4-21, 2019.
For this exhibition, twenty artists were given an original linocut print from Jamaal Barber of a black child wrapped in a a blanket. The artists were asked to embellish the print with their vision of what these black babies can expect growing up in America. More details on the poster:
