"........Artist who styles herself Mela M. rely on strong geometric frameworks for their architecture-based abstraction... . Mela M.'s large panels are cool and elegant, highly formalized but reminiscent of aerial views of urban grids."
The New York Times, Long Island Weekly Desk, "Whose Paradise Is It Anyway?", By Helen A. Harrison"Mela M. creates various invented geometric shapes, introducing the illusions of form and space by combining multiple points of perspectives for the viewer"
COOS Art Museum, "Expressions West 2004 Competition", Press ReleaseBibliography
2020
OXYGEN, Juliet Magazine, ON TEMPORARY ART MAGAZINE SINCE 1980
MELA M- LIGHT BENDERS AND ALTERED ABSORPTIONS by Artist and Writer Suzanne Bybee. On @Retrograde Exhibition, Carnegie Art Museum Studio Gallery, Oxnard, CA Feb.-June 2020
IOARTE, Oxygen, Associazione Culturale IoArte, Via Aldo Moro, 47, 31030 CASIER (TV)
OXYGEN organized by Associazione Culturale Gurubu – Roma Curatori: Sandro Bongiani-Patrizio Maria-Gabi Minedi-Joe Adam Gabriel
ARCHIVIO OPHEN VIRTUAL ART
DOCUMENTAZIONE DI CULTURA, ARTE MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA
Art Made During Quarantine
THAT LAYERED LOOK II: Curated by Peter Frank. Film by Eric Minh Swenson (#1238)
THAT LAYERED LOOK II: Curated by Peter Frank. Film by Eric Minh Swenson (#1252)
Tufenkian Fine Arts, Glendale, CA
2019
Hudson Valley MOCA, NY
The National Art Center and Museum of Tokyo, 19th Japan International Art Exhibit, Dec., Catalog
MELA M: LOSING GRAVITY IN THE ORBITING MEGATROPOLIS, Film by Eric Minh Swenson, Mar. 8th
2018
Voyage LA, Meet Mela M. aka Mela Marsh, November 19th
PROPOSAL FOR INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION-METROPOLIS BY Mela M, Dr. Jeanne S. Willette, Nov. 8th
MAKING THE METROPOLIS: THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT OF MELA M, Dr. Jeanne S. Willette, October 29th
2017
Makii Masaru Fine Arts, “481 Degrees of Archaeological Genesis In The Primordial Oceans of Yonaguni”. 1階で個展開催中のメラさんが在廊しています。4月末に初来日されてから、約2ヶ月が経とうとしています。帰国の前に直接話せる残り少ないチャンスです。 Invitation and Catalog
Far under the deep blue oceans of distant times, cities underneath the waters of Japan’s Yonaguni Island release the multiple memory dream shapes of archaeological dystopia to remind us. June 24-July 26
Makii Masaru Fine Arts, 展示会のタイトルは「A CITY OF ARCHITECTONIC METAMORPHOSIS FOR THE COMMON ERA by Mela M」。構築された地平線の上下に手描きの都市が拡がります。新しい時代のさらなる高い意識が都市の心と精神とともに振動し、響き渡ります。Mela M.の新しい建築観は、世界の連結性をより完全な心理社会的統合の状態にもたらします Tokyo, Japan May-June 20 Invitation
Citrus College, Citrus Art Gallery, “The Only Way Out Is In”, Group Exhibit Glendora, Ca (March 1-May 12), Catalog
2016
Long Beach Museum of Art
Kobe Design University Art + Design, LA x KOBE Exchange, “My Life”, Curated by Kaoru Hironaka, Kobe-shi, Hyogo, Japan
Torrance Museum of Art, The Final Mas Attack
2015
Masur Museum of Art, 52nd Annual Competition Curated by Benjamin M. Hickey and Sandra Firmin, Monroe, LA (March-June)
2014
Alexandria Museum of Art, 26th September Competition Curated by Stewart Nachmias, Alexandria LA (Sept-Nov)
2013
Los Angeles Magazine, Incognito, May 11th
Incognito at SMMoA
2012
ARTS BEAT Incognito at SMMoA
2011
VITEBSK PROSPECT, America with Birds Eye View, Elena Alimova, Vitebsk, Belarus, p. 6, March 24, 2011
TV Interview, Vitebsk, EXHIBIT of an AMERICAN, Belarus, March, 2011
PEOPLES WORLD, Tatiana Pasternak, Vitebsk, Belarus, p. 15, March 31, 2011
VITEBSK WORKER, Natalia Rishicova, Vitebsk, Belarus, p. 8. March 29, 2011
Vitebsk-Radio, Radio Interview, Alexander Socolov, Belarus, March, 2011
Be-Art Magazine, Incognito au SMMoA
2010
Bunny Gallery, For Roland, Catalog, September
ARTMAP, Santa Monica Museum of Art
2009
New American Paintings, Mela M
New American Paintings, Catalog, 2008 Pacific Coast Competition. January 2009
New American Paintings, Pacific Coast, Issue #79, December 2008-January 2009
2008
The 809 Gallery Publication, “Constructed Shapes”, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, Canada ( February)
ARTSLANT, INCOGNITO: BEHIND THE SCENES
2007
RAM, “Keeping it Straight: Right Angles and Hard Edges in Contemporary Southern California Art”, by Peter Frank, Riverside, CA (Nov)
ArtScene, “Keeping it Straight: Right Angles and Hard Edges in Contemporary Southern California Art”, by Peter Frank, Riverside, CA (Nov)
RAM, Director’s Statement, “Keeping it Straight: Right Angles and Hard Edges in Contemporary Southern California Art”, by Daniel Foster, Riverside, CA (Nov.)
CLARE Affairs, The Newsletter of the CLARE Foundation, “Art for Clare”, Santa Monica, CA. (Summer 2007)
2006
Radio Interview (7/4/06) on the Program “Two in the City” on the Radio Station “Culture” (FM 102.9) Mela M. interviewed by Uri Evanoski, Minsk, Belarus
Central National TV station ANT on the show “Good Morning Belarus” Friday and Saturday June 16 & 17, 2006 Shown at about 8 in the morning, Minsk
A Brief History of Contemporary Art “From America“, Essay by Dr. Jeanne S. M. Willette
ArtScene “A Journey through The Flat World: The Virtual Architecture of Mela M.” (June 2006)
News from Belarus & Eastern Europe, The Being Times, “View” by Mela M. at MOCA Minsk, (June 6 2006)
Coagula Art Journal, “From America”, The exhibition of 55 American artists from 26 cities, curated by Los Angeles based artist Mela M., Minsk Belarus (June 2006, #80, page 41)
A Journey through The Flat World: The Virtual Architecture of Mela M by Dr. Jeanne S. Willette
A Journey through The Flat World: The Virtual Architecture of Mela M. (Catalog)
2005
RTHK, Radio/Television Hong Kong, China General Programs Section, TV Interview, Producer Tim Cheung, (July 17, 2005) Presented by the Kingsley Art Club and the Crocker Art Museum, “74th Crocker Kingsley Exhibition”, A Juried Competition for Ca Artists, January 29-March 13, 2005
Crocker Art Museum, Catalog, January 2005
Artweek, Editor Debra Koppman, Stellar Somerset Gallery, Previews, “Mela M. Spatial Dimensions” Palo Alto, CA, June 2005 Scott Shields, “Croker-Kingsley 74th Exhibition” Crocker Art Museum, catalog, Jan 2005
Coagula, Lawrence Asher Gallery, “Perspective: Linear, Spacial & Otherwise”, Los Angeles, CA, March 2005
Selah Artistic Giving Center, Story of Homelessness, Catalog, Los Angeles, Ca December- January, 2005
Azusanianesr Bread Crumbs, ” A wannabe Artist Personally Blogging a Life’s Happening in the Land of the Angels”, Mela M., Moto Okawa, www.motookawa.com, Tuesday, May 17, 2005
New American Paintings, Pacific Coast, Issue #55, December 2004 – January 2005
2004
Christopher Knight, LA Times staff writer, “The Many Colors of White, Explored”, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, CA, March 19, 2004
New American Painting, Catalog, 2004
Pacific Coast Competition, Juried by Michael Klein, Curator of the Microsoft Art Collection, December, 2004Jess Holl, “Signed up for ‘Summer Camp’, Galleries, Calendar Weekend, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, CA, July 22, 2004 Coos Art Museum, “The World”, “Expressions West 2004” Coos Bay Oregon, Friday, July 9, 2004
Out and About, “Museum Offers Talk, Workshop”, Coos Bay, OR, May 10, 2004
Presented by Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA), Benefiting the Art Museum Council of LACMA, Catalog, Los Angeles Art Show, Santa Monica, CA, October 14-17, 2004
2003
Zucman, Glenn, “Strange Angels” Radio Interview, KBEACH.org., CSU Long Beach, CA, April 13, 2003
Harrison, Helen A., “Whose Paradise Is It, Anyway? Expo XXII”, New York Times, Arts and Entertainment, Long Island Edition, March 16, 2003
Wallace, George, “Guggenheim Curator Picks Spoke Expo Artists”, The Long Islander, March 6
LA Panorama, People in America, Sokolovskaya Aleksandra, January
Whittier Daily News, Local artist exhibits in Whittier by Valerie Marrs, Whittier, CA, Dec. 31
2002
Dr. Jeanne S. Willette, “Memory and Metonymy: Mela M. and Postmodern Painting”, Catalog, June 2002
Richard Smith, “Mela M’s New Paintings”, Catalog (May)
Mela M : Memory and Metonymy, Catalog, June 2002
2001
Master of Fine Arts-2002, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, May
2000
Frith, Stephanie, “Riviera Village Festival Reinvents Itself,” LA Times South Bay Weekly, April, 2000 Easy Reader, April 27, 2000
1999
International Womans Magazine, LA Woman’s Show, June 1999
Dr. Jeanne S. Willette, “Memory and Metonymy: Mela M. and Postmodern Painting”, Catalog,, June 2002 Richard Smith, “Mela M.’s New Paintings… ”, Catalog ( May)
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