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Diptych by Tricia Wright and one work by Melissa Joseph, valued at $2,850
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MELISSA JOSEPH PAPER VARIABLE SERIES
“My work starts with images or stories from my personal archive. I also think of my work as visual poetry- moments in time, captured through gesture like a verse. I came across a beautiful poem by Arundhati Chowdhury online, and the first line was "Windows are peculiar poetries." This is where the title of my series for Dieu Donné comes from. Each work in this series offers a glimpse into a life. They can be beginnings or middles of stories, as poems often are, allowing for the experience to continue in our minds, long after we leave the image. The motif of the airplane window is a device to reinforce the sense of peering in from one place in time to another, or from one life to another.” ––– Melissa Joseph
Melissa Joseph is a New York-based artist. She was raised in an Indian/American household in rural Pennsylvania and she worked as a textile designer and K-12 art educator for 13 years before attaining an MFA in 2018. She uses her own family photo archive along with craft and found materials to consider themes of memory, family history, and the unique juxtapositions of diasporic life. Her work has been shown at the Delaware Contemporary, Woodmere Art Museum, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Jeffrey Deitch Projects, MOCA Arlington and List Gallery at Swarthmore College. She has been featured in Hyperallergic, Artnet, New American Paintings, Le Monde, CNN, and Architectural Digest and participated in residencies including Dieu Donné, Fountainhead, the Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts, the Museum of Arts and Design and upcoming at Greenwich House Pottery in 2023. She is a regular contributor to BOMB magazine.
TRICIA WRIGHT PAPER VARIABLE SERIES
“The works in this edition explore my personal relationship with nature and reflect on time and the value of human touch. They share the visual device of a halo form, an archaic signifier of glory and a vehicle with which I explore the idea of contemporary exaltation. In adopting this form I also draw from the symbolic lexicon of my own catholic upbringing and apply it instead to the secular experience, exalting nature and honoring direct human connection in an increasingly virtual world. I exploit the material value associated with gold to celebrate the worth and beauty of the natural world.” ––– Tricia Wright
Originally from England and educated in London, Tricia Wright moved permanently to the US in 1999. She operates a full-time art studio in North Stamford, CT, and maintains close connections with Europe. Her works are held in museum, corporate, government, and private collections in the US, UK, Europe, and Africa. Recent achievements include her 2019 MTA Arts & Design Public Art Commission, a permanent large-scale installation in glass and metal at Crestwood Railway Station, New York. In 2019 she was a Workspace Artist in Residence at Dieu Donné, Brooklyn, at Vermont Studio Center in 2020, and she was a 2017 Pollock/Krasner/Arts Mid-Hudson grantee.
Tricia has considerable professional experience as an educator. She designed specialized visitor art tours for the NTHP at the Glass House (CT), Olana (NY), and Lyndhurst (NY), where she also trained and managed a team of visitor experience guides. She has worked extensively as an art educator at Judd Foundation (NY) and DIA Beacon (NY), and as a private art guide, creating private custom designed tours of NYC museums and galleries. Tricia also has a background in arts publishing as editor, contributing consultant, and author; among her own book publications is American Art & Artists, published by Harper Collins in association with the Smithsonian Institute.
