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Melinda Hackett
Watercolor 9, Work on Paper, Colorful, Organic Shapes, Natural, Moving, Cosmos

2009

About the Item

Watercolor 9 is a 22" x 17.5" , watercolor on paper, by Melinda Hacket. It is white framed to 25" x 20.25. It is filled with rich earthy colors and organic moving shapes. Melinda Hackett is a mid-career New York Artist. She received her BA at Hobart William Smith College and MFA at Parsons School of Design. According to Hackett: My paintings refer to organic space and unfixed time. To call them landscapes would be misleading since they are poetic inventions of my imagination, and reference the world of nature rather than depict it literally. One of my purposes in making paintings is to transport the viewer to a necessarily foreign place, where nature can be experienced without knowing it fully, and where reality is communicated through the senses. I am involved in the play of interior and exterior space. On one hand; interior, intimate, house, personal-and on the other; exterior, immense, universe, cosmos. My paintings represent both states, the near, the far, the view through a telescope, the view through a microscope, the sheltering sky, the intimate forest. My paintings create worlds full of images that float, hover, creep, spin, hang, roll or sleep in corners. The images come from an internal source. They contain a vital impulse, and are alive as if subjected to breezes, weather and climatic conditions. My paintings represent states of non linear time. It is less that a singular event is taking place than that a group of different objects are moving through the picture plane at various rates of speed and in opposite directions, some gliding slowly and others whirring as if in a blender. Nature is not in a state of decay, nor is it symbolic or nostalgic for the past. The paintings are largely fragmentary in that they exist in one moment of time, so do they exist in one torn swatch of space. There is a sense that the activity continues outside the borders of the paintings as the forms flirt with the edges or get chopped off by them. Some forms are only just coming into being while others have already 'come out' and some just like to watch. By virtue of their inability to be fully identified, they remain in the realm of the poetic, a sum of images to form a whole, and the way they relate to each other is meant to be read experientially and not categorically. If there is a story to tell, it is up to the viewer to tell it. Hackett's work has been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the US since 1990. She is part of public and private collections throughout the world.
  • Creator:
    Melinda Hackett (American)
  • Creation Year:
    2009
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 25 in (63.5 cm)Width: 20.25 in (51.44 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Riverdale, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU166211268242
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