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Melissa Vogley Woods
artistBio
Melissa Vogley Woods (she/her/hers) (b. 1968) was born, lives and works in Columbus Ohio. She has been nominated for the National USA Fellowship, has been the recipient of two Ohio Art Council Individual Artist Grants and a Greater Columbus Artist Grant. She has recently been awarded a Mass Moca Residency, Vermont Studio Center Residency and Wassaic Projects Residency. Her work has been exhibited locally, nationally and internationally in such institutions as Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus Museum of Art, Weston Art Gallery Cincinnati, Raskolnikow Galerie e.V., Dresden Germany, Museum of Sisters Aslamazyan in the Armenian Republic, CICA Museum Gimpo-si, Korea, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA. Recent public projects include “Lobby” a year-long program of three, two person exhibitions she curated with her collective Middlechild located inside a Planned Parenthood Surgical Clinic.
Artist Statement
Melissa Vogley-Woods is a project-based, multidisciplinary visual artist from Columbus, Ohio. She creates sensual, optical and illusionistically contorted works that reimagine historic artistic production. Vogley-Woods’ collaboration with artists of the past is mediated through a process of fragmentation, reclamation, and re-performance. and Her projects take the form of paintings, photography, video, public works, sound and recently, sculpture using the obscure and historic faux marble process called scagliola or stuccomarmo.
