Melissa Weinman
"Painter Melissa Weinman is at once deeply traditional and profoundly and quirkily original. All her work, whether in landscape or in representing the human figure, embodies what Joseph Conrad called the primary mission of the artist: "above all, to make you see." For Weinman, helping people to see better involves not only teaching them how to look more attentively at the created order, but also challenging them to reconsider their own prejudices. In short, while her paintings are always full of aesthetic delights, more often than not they pose unsettling moral and spiritual questions. Weinman is known for her landscapes and portraits but she has also created an important series of works representing Christian saints in contemporary garb and situations.
- Seattle's Image magazine"
- Seattle's Image magazine"
Fine artist Melissa Weinman works in oils and charcoal, creating landscapes, waterscapes, still life and Christian art portraits. Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the country, in museums and galleries including the Frye Art Museum.
Weinman is a graduate of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, where she earned her MFA in two-dimensional media. Prior to this, she graduated with honors from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, with her BA in Creative Visual Arts and Chinese Studies.
Her teaching experience includes years at the University of Puget Sound, where she began as an assistant professor and worked her way up to full professor and eventually Art Department Chair.
Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Tacoma Art Museum; the Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, AK; Seattle University Law School, WA; the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts in Farmville, VA; and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Sweet Briar, VA.
To read more about Melissa Weinman and see examples of her work, please visit her web site: www.melissaweinman.com.
