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Rainbow Weather
Mel Prest, Rainbow Weather, 2019, wall drawing and acrylic on panels, 128 x 140 x 1 ⅝ inches.
Chandra Cerrito / Art Advisors is pleased to present Rainbow Weather by Mel Prest, the inaugural edition of our Commissioned Art Program, on view April 5 - May 24, 2019.
Mel Prest's work is inspired by naturally occurring light phenomena. Rainbow Weather, her new installation and one of her largest works to date, plays off moments of clarity, obscurity and high drama she sees in the sky. Rainbow Weather utilizes and expands on a series of 5 x 5 x 2" paintings on panel Prest made over the past few years, which have never been shown. Using these panels and their colors as a starting point, she created a large wall installation designed specifically for the space. The new work incorporates several different structures: single panels, grouping where colors and internal forms play off one another, and "ladder" shapes (28 panels hung in 2 parallel lines). Prest has composed clusters of seemingly monochrome panels, though most have their sides painted, and some have low contrast colors painted on the surface. Rainbow Weather also includes a hand-drawn wall painting in pale yellow that rests under the panels, shifting in visibility as viewers move around the piece. This is the first time Prest has shown a wall drawing and painting panels together as a single installation.
Victorian Box/ Mock Orange
was acquired by the Berkeley Museum of Art
Sun Cloud
was acquired by the Mills College Art Museum
Blue Morning Glory
was acquired by the Crocker Museum of Art
I've got work up now, curated by Ellen Hackl Fagan of ODETTA gallery, and Liz Garvey from garvey|simon. The opening is this week!
January 12-14, 2018
See my work with Chandra Cerrito Gallery at the East Cut Art Fair. Click image to see more and click here for a free ticket.
About Abstraction: Bay Area Women Painters
Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts
September 24 - December 8
Political conversations have turned a renewed spotlight on women and their power and influence on every corner of society, including the arts. In the spirit of discovery, this show celebrates 16 Bay Area women artists, emerging and established, who have worked in abstraction for years. This show provides a platform for their work that features precise, powerful lines, as well as gestural patterns. These paintings suggest a kinship with the Abstract Expressionist movement of 1940s SoHo and San Francisco.
Participating Artists Include:
Lorene Anderson, Eva Bovenzi, Donna Brookman, Heather Day, Amy Ellingson, Linda Geary, Rebekah Goldstein, Danielle Lawrence, Naomie Kremer, Michelle Mansour, Alicia McCarthy, Mel Prest, Cornelia Schulz, Ema Sintamarian, Michele Theberge, Canan Tolon.
With Liberty and Justice for Some
Berkeley Art Center
1275 Walnut Street Berkeley, CA 94709
Curated by Monica Lundy and Walter Maciel
Opening Reception: Saturday, Sept 23rd 6 - 8 pm
September 23 - October 8, 2017
Wednesday - Sunday
11 am - 5 pm
Sluice Biennial
Bohemia Place & Morning Lane, Hackney Central, London E8
Sept 30 - Oct 3 2017
12-6 daily
Curated by Hanz Hancock & Patrick Morrissey, Saturation Point
Sabine Reckewell, Float, 2016, nylon webbing, nails, wood strips,192 x 192 x 170 inches
Photo Credit: Stephen Whisler
Mel Prest
Sabine Reckewell
Rik Ritchey
Off-Site Exhibition on view at:
1111 Broadway, Oakland Oakland CA 94607
curated by Chandra Cerrito Contemporary
On View Through September 29
Hours: Monday - Friday 7am-7pm and by appointment
Lilac Aura, my solo show at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary. 4/7-5/25/2017
Artist talk at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, moderated by Caitlin Haskell, Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture at SFMoMA, 2-3:30PM 5/13/2017
Art Market is coming up. Please come and see us there.
At c2c Project Space I'm excited to announce my two-person show with Martha Clippinger. You can read more about it here.
In Praise of Planetary Time, my solo show at B Sakata Garo, is up through February 27, 2016. These are the largest works I've made, measuring 108 inches square, and were pretty thrilling to construct. Here is the statement for the show.
I am thrilled to announce my solo show, COLOR CHANT, at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, in Oakland, opening 6 - 8 PM, August 7, 2015. The show runs until September 24, 2015 and will include an artist talk with Connie Goldman who has a concurrent show and Donna Napper, Curator at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art.
(new) A catalogue is available at the gallery ($10) or email me and I can send you one ($12).
My work is included in the show, Therely Bare Redux, curated by John Tallman, Iemke van Dijk and Guido Winkler, at Zeitgeist Gallery in Nashville, TN. The show is installed now, and the artist reception is 6 - 9 PM, August 1, 2015. The show runs July 17- August 29, 2015.
(new) The show then travels to the Clara M. Eagle Gallery, at the University of Tennessee in Murray, later this fall and opening September 29.
Currently in New York, where our current show at Transmitter is OVER TIME ACROSS SPACE, with Kim Bennett & Chris Hosea. There are a lot of great events planned for Thursdays and Sundays; perhaps you can join us.
I just returned from Baltimore where Transmitter and Guest Spot @ the Reinstitute partnered for the Artist Run Art Fair and Self-Organized-- Aesthetic Politics of the Artist Run. The image below is from our panel discussion.
Upcoming in February! I am thrilled to be included in Territory of Abstraction, curated by Christine Pfister, at Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. SEE IT HERE, Read about it HERE
Amy Ellingson and I have collaborated for the show Out Of Storage, at Studio 110 Projects. It's up now and the closing reception is 4-7pm, January 31, 2015
I'm now a partner in the curatorial project Transmitter, located in Brooklyn, New York. Visit our site here
I've been accepted and will attend Willapa Bay Artist Residency in April 2015. I'm very excited for time to focus.
un.bound.ed, curated by Brent Hallard and Don Voisine, is installed at Root Division in San Francisco, California. The show is up until November 22, 2014, and there are a few limited edition box sets remaining. You can see installation views here
My solo show, MoonBrightChime, is installed at Galleri Urbane in Dallas, Texas.
The show runs from October 11-November 15, 2014. See Installations page for installation view.
I'm honored that The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey will host DOPPLER SHIFT, a show curated by Mary Birmingham and inspired by DOPPLER, that I organized last year for Parallel Art Space. The show runs until January 18, 2015. See/ read: here, here, here, here
Please join us for the opening and events associated with DOPPLER SHIFT
This was my work, Air Conditioned Oblivion, installed at the Drawing Center's summer show, The Intuitionists. There is a catalogue available or you can see it online.
Opening this Friday, 7-10PM, First/ Last, curated by Heather Phillips, (MFA '10 GD) NorCal RISD alum
Some new pieces are currently in Dallas with Galleri Urbane, if you are in town.
Will you be in Apeldorn, Netherlands on February 22? If so, please visit popzaal Gigant! I was invited to submit some animations by Guido Nieuwendijk and Marije Vermeulen of TADA Projects.
Upcoming! A Familiar Line at Key Projects. I am thrilled to be showing with Joanne Freeman and Carol Salmanson.
