Melanie Moczarski

Houston, Texas

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Exhibitions at Tripoli Gallery

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Melanie Moczarski was born in Houston, Texas and grew up in South America. She earned her BFA from Parsons The New School for Design in 2008. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her work deals with the projection of memory onto the world around, and the subtle experiences that take a while to fit into memory but eventually collect fractions of previous ones. She paints imagined landscapes, hybrid life forms and sculptural surfaces pieced from her own memory and speculation. They are informed by limited first hand experiences as well as the endless projected stuff existing in between. These are objects and spaces that may or may not be. “I am interested in how, more often than not, our experiences of the world around us are more informed by memory and repetition than by the present moment, and in the question of whether or not there is such thing as the present without past. Working with images of nature is particularly interesting and inspiring to me because the natural world exists both in perception and beyond and before it, in a realm that is not of human memory or language.”

Lingua Franca, Installation View

Lingua Franca, Installation View

Lingua Franca, Installation View

Lingua Franca, Installation View

Lingua Franca, Installation View

Lingua Franca, Installation View

Lingua Franca, Installation View

Lingua Franca n.11, 2015
acrylic on polyester film
19 × 17 inches

Lingua Franca n.6, 2015
acrylic on polyester film
40 × 44 inches

Lingua Franca n.1, 2015
acrylic on polyester film
40 × 44-1/2 inches

Lingua Franca n.8, 2015
acrylic on polyester film
40 × 45 inches

Lingua Franca n.3, 2015
acrylic on polyester film
40 × 40-1/2 inches

Lingua Franca n.10, 2015
acrylic on polyester film
40 × 45 inches

Lingua Franca n.2, 2015
acrylic on polyester film
39 × 47 inches

Lingua Franca n.7, 2015
acrylic on polyester film
64-1/2 × 40 inches

Lingua Franca n.12, 2015
acrylic on polyester film
76 × 40 inches

Lingua Franca n.9, 2015
acrylic on polyester film
75 × 40 inches

Lingua Franca n.5, 2015
acrylic on polyester film
40 × 45-1/2 inches

Lingua Franca n.4, 2015
acrylic on polyester film
40 × 43 inches

Find Me There, 2013
Acrylic on board
48 × 48 inches

Easy Path, 2013
Acrylic on paper
30 × 22-1/2 inches

Gold Light, 2013
Acrylic on board
48 × 48 inches

Shepherd's Delight, 2013
Acrylic on paper
10-1/4 × 13 inches

The Wall, 2013
Acrylic on paper
24 × 20 inches

What A Flood Leaves Behind, 2013
Acrylic on paper
30 × 22-1/2 inches

Behind the Bushes, 2013
Acrylic on paper
30 × 22-1/2 inches

In the Sky and in the Water, 2013
Acrylic on paper
25-3/4 × 20-1/4 inches

This is Somewhere, 2013
Acrylic on board
48 × 48 inches

Group Hug, 2010
Acrylic and ink on canvas
80 × 58 inches

Palm, 2010
Watercolor and ink on paper
15 × 21 inches

Growth, 2011
Watercolor and ink on paper
30 × 23 inches