Tuba Sube II
- Mixed Media
- Melissa Melero-Moose
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On Loan
Through the abstraction of Melissa Melero-Moose’s work, one can visualize the landscape, piecing it together through her use of organic materials and high desert colors. Melissa was born in San Francisco, but spent most of her life in the Reno-Nevada area. Melero-Moose is a mixed-media Northern Paiute/Modoc artist who is enrolled in the Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the Fallon Reservation and Colony. She received a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts, and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Fine Arts from Portland State University. Melissa Melero-Moose’s work is directly tied to Numu practices and the landscape of the Great Basin. This can be seen in her use of harmonious tones of the high desert: turquoise, orange, yellow, and red. She channels the landscape in her work not only in her compositions and colors, but by incorporating organic pieces of the land like pine nuts, sand, and willows, encased in acrylic washes to create a relief on her work. Not only does Melissa create stunning artworks, she is the first to start vital work to create an archive for Native artists in the area; she founded the Great Basin Native Artists (GBNA) to bring visibility to these artists that have been ignored for so long. Her contributions to this archive will have a lasting historical impact on the recognition of Native American artists in the Great Basin.
- Subject Matter: Abstract
- Created: 2015
- Inventory Number: 2016.010.012