Melanie Walker, Ghost Forest (detail), print on silk, 2020.

Ghost Forest: Works by Melanie Walker

Melanie Walker’s works on fabric evoke the experience of wandering among the trees of an aspen forest; gentle yet powerful, fragile but enduring.

Sept. 26 – Dec. 6, 2020

Freyer – Newman Center

Stretching upward like trees or drifting across walls like falling leaves, her textile pieces are a contemplative reverie on our origins in nature and the landscapes that continue to sustain us. Ghost Forest offers a space to reflect on the memories that connect us to wild places, and to one another.

 

About the Artist

Walker is a Colorado-based artist whose work draws on analog photographic processes, digital art and mixed media. She earned a BA from San Francisco State University and an MFA from Florida State University, and has received numerous awards including an NEA Visual Arts Fellowship, Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship and an Aaron Siskind Award. In addition to creating smaller scale artworks and larger public art installations, she currently teaches media arts at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

 

This exhibition is organized in collaboration with Walker Fine Art, Denver.

 

Meet the Artist: Melanie Walker

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