Melissa Browder Beck

Melissa Beck's work encompasses sculpture, installation and time-based media using found objects, paint layers, ceramics and woodworking. She is interested in the repeated use, routine, and familiarity of everyday functional objects and food items and the human understanding of these entities. During her years living in Brooklyn, she was drawn to the excessively painted surfaces in the subway and old apartments and applied this method to objects in her studio. Over the years, she has evolved this method applying it to a variety of objects and expanding the concept of layers, freezing moments in time and obscuring our perceptions of the everyday. She is based in Orange County, CA and is an art professor teaching courses in design, color theory and sculpture.

2013 MFA - Sculpture, Pratt Institute
2008 BA - Studio Art, Point Loma Nazarene University

2018
Neon West house shows, various locations, CA
Sensorium event with Vanguard Culture, San Diego CA *featured in National Geographic* (see artist website for info)

2016
Clothing Store solo exhibition, San Diego CA
MAS Attack, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
Bread Will Be Provided, Bread&Salt, San Diego, CA
Browder Sister's Pastime EP release event, Fellowship Monrovia, Monrovia, CA

2015
Sinking, Sinking, Sinking,San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
Home Away from Home, Graft Art at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
apARTment #2, Graft Art, Brooklyn, NY
apARTment #1, Graft Art, Brooklyn, NY
Disposable Commitments, Spark and Echo Arts, New York, NY

2014
Peculiar Objects, Lorimoto Gallery, Ridgewood, NY
Our Mirror is an Island, CFW Art Gallery at Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York, NY
Fashion Week Benefit S/S, Holy Apostles Ballroom, New York, NY
Under Construction, SOHO20 Gallery, New York, NY
Meals selected contributing artist, Spark and Echo Arts, New York, NY

2013
SAW, fourth annual Storefront Art Walk on 5th Avenue Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY
Caked On solo exhibition, Pratt Studios Gallery at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2012
Sculpture invitational exhibition, Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
Look at Me Now, S...