Melissa Zexter

Melissa Zexter
Born
Providence, Rhode Island
EducationRhode Island School of Design, BFA Photography
New York University, MFA
Known forEmbroidered photography
Websitewww.melissazexter.com

Melissa Zexter is a Brooklyn-based artist who creates embroidered photography.

Early life and education

Zexter grew up in Bristol, Rhode Island in the Joseph Reynolds House and was given her first camera at the age of eight. Her father Robert Zexter was a prominent art and antiquity dealer. Melissa Zexter earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in photography. She earned her MFA in photography from New York University/International Center of Photography. She teaches photography at the Dalton School in New York. She has previously taught at Alfred University, Cooper Union, Long Island University and The New School.

Art

Zexter began embroidering her photography following an artist's residency program in the Catskills. Her works typically begin with her own digital or analogical photography, to which she adds a layer of hand-stitched embroidery. The overlaid embroidery pattern in her works fits the context of the scene's theme. She uses various embroidery styles, "ranging from seemingly random stitches of different colors, to pattern-like stitches of single or complementing hues." Zexter prefers to photograph women and her themes include representations of femininity and the exploration of female identity.

Zexter's works have been reviewed and published in The New York Times, The Boston Herald, Time Out Chicago, and The New Yorker. She exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 1994. She has also participated in exhibitions at the Muriel Guepin Gallery, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Hallspace Gallery, Creiger Dane Gallery, Robert Mann Gallery, Triennale Design Museum, and the Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta.

Exhibitions

See also

References

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  16. ↑ Zexter, Melissa (18 September 2014). "Abiti da Lavoro exhibition at the Triennale Design Museum (Triennale di Milano) in Milano, Italia". Melissa Zexter. Archived from the original on 20 July 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
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  20. ↑ "Thread, Pixels, Paper: works by Melinda McDaniel, Melissa Zexter and Katharine Kreisher". Carrie Haddad Gallery. 2011. Archived from the original on 2 March 2016. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  21. ↑ Chalmers, Jamie (22 November 2011). "Showtime! Melissa Zexter, Muriel Guepin Gallery, New York". Mr X Stitch. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  22. ↑ "The Embroidered Image". Robert Mann Gallery. 2014. Archived from the original on 2022-07-20. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
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  24. ↑ "Exhibitions - Past and Present - Featuring new works from Iviva Olenick and Melissa Zexter". Muriel Guepin Gallery. 2017. Archived from the original on 20 July 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  25. ↑ "In Hers Hands". Artsy. 2018. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
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