"“Can you dig it?/ A Chromatic Series Of Floral Arrangements” (Leopard)" Photograph - Limited Edition of 1

"I am interested in exploring ideas related to female identity, popular culture, kitsch and my personal experiences (that of coming of age in suburban New Jersey). My artistic production/process involves the collection and documentation of objects from 99 cents stores," Melissa Eder explains. Ms. Eder received her B.F.A. in painting from Parsons School of Design in New York City where she studied with Sean Scully and a M.F.A. in combined media from Hunter College in New York City where she studied with Robert Morris and received a Meritorious Award from the Alumni Association. As a visual artist, her work has been shown nationally and internationally in such venues as the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York University's Broadway Windows Gallery, Art in General, the Charlotte Street Foundation's Paragraph Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri and in Stadtlengsfeld, Germany where she created a permanent art installation in a former kindergarten. She was an artist-in-residence at the Henry Street Settlement in New York City, the Saltonstall Foundation in Ithaca, New York and the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida as selected by photographer Graciela Iturbide. In 2011, her work was selected by Eric C. Shiner, the director of the Andy Warhol Museum for his curated exhibit on CurateNYC. Her work was also chosen by Sarah Hasted for Photography Now, 2004, for the Photography Quarterly, Woodstock, New York. Recently, her photo book "Fave Foods" was included in a group show at the Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson, New York. She was selected to design a piano for the public art project for Sing for Hope during the summer of 2013. She has received numerous grants including funding from the Puffin Foundation and two Manhattan Community Arts Fund grants from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Her work has been reviewed by the New York Times and various other publications. She lives in New York City and works in Brooklyn as an artist in residence through the chashama studio residency.