Join us for an Artist Talk featuring Melissa Rubin and Amy Beecher in conversation on Saturday, March 15th, from 1-3pm.
LONGEST NIGHT 2024, 64” x 30” x 16” Wax, oil stick, oil paint, powdered graphite, carbon, tree branches, birds nest, on various papers mounted on wood panel
This event coincides with the solo exhibition Field Notes: Recent Work by Melissa Rubin, currently on view at the gallery through May 25th, 2025. During the talk, Beecher and Rubin will explore the themes, visual elements, and psychological layers of this compelling exhibition, delving into the process, imagery and inspiration behind the works on display. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with the artist through a Q&A session, where questions and discussions will be encouraged.
Melissa Rubin (b. 1960, New York, NY), a New York-based artist for over three decades, recently relocated to southern Vermont. She holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and an MS Ed. in Arts Leadership from Bank Street College of Education, also in NYC. Rubin’s art has been featured in ARTnews Magazine, Artscope Magazine, Encaustic Arts Magazine, Wax Fusion, and on CBS This Morning. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions and has been used in performances and movie sets. The most recent venues to show her work are: Atlantic Gallery, NYC; John Molloy Gallery, NYC; Carter Burden Gallery, NYC; Art on Paper Fair at Pier 36, NYC; ODETTA Digital on SHIM Art Network on Artsy; Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY; Cerulean Arts, Philadelphia, PA; San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, CA; The Burgdorff Gallery of Southern Vermont College, Bennington, VT; Main Street Arts, Saxtons River, VT; Canal Street Art Gallery, Bellows Falls, VT. Rubin has been awarded grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and New York Foundation for the Arts and received a Fulbright Fellowship to Japan. In 2017 she was a participant in a Master Abstraction Residency at MASS MoCA, in North Adams, MA. For over twenty-five years Rubin taught art to children, undergraduate and graduate students. In 2012 she left teaching to devote herself fully to her art-making practice. You can follow her on Instagram @melissarubinart and view her work on her website: melissarubinart.com .
Amy Beecher (b. 1984, New York, NY) is a multimedia artist working in digital imaging, performance, and installation. Beecher earned a BA from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT. The artist has performed and exhibited artwork at The International Center for Photography, Hesse Flatow Gallery, and Meulensteen Gallery curated by Legacy Russell (New York, NY); Storm King Art Center (New Windsor, NY), Tiger Strikes Asteroid, The Print Center (Philadelphia, PA); Providence College-Galleries (Providence, Rhode Island), The Dorrance Hamilton Gallery at Salve Regina University (Newport, RI), The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) among others. In 2023 Shandaken Projects presented Beecher’s first major public artwork, a billboard in Manhattan funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation. Her residencies include those at the The Macdowell Colony (Peterborough, NH), Shandaken Projects and Chashama (New York, NY) and The Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, NY). Her work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art Library, Providence College, and The Smithsonian Institution. In 2020 she joined the faculty of Emerson College as an Assistant Professor of Visual Art and Media Studies. She lives and works between Southern Vermont and New York City. Her podcast, a growing archive of dialogues with other artists from 2013 onward, is The Amy Beecher Show.