Nina Meledandri
bones

Media: handmade abaca & cotton papers, razor clam shells, metallic thread

Artist Statement:
“bones” is the result of a trip to the beach, early in summer, where I encountered a razor clamshell tide. It had been a while since the ocean had brought up an abundance of shells and I gathered up as many as I could. Embedding them in abaca, I accentuated their preciousness (to me) by circumscribing them in silver. After framing them in pink I was struck by their corporal quality.

Biography

Nina Meledandri is a painter and a photographer living in Brooklyn NY. As a painter she shows extensively throughout the NY area and was represented by the David Findlay Gallery in NY where she had 2 solo shows. As a photographer she has been published by the NY Times Magazine, Architectural Digest, New York Magazine and the Village Voice among others. In recent years her focus has been on mixed media work using handmade paper that she often embeds with organic matter.