Vote will provide a view into her painting workflow.  She typically begins from life on site (en plein air)  then moves the piece inside to finish.

This time she is working on a piece in Equity Gallery while her studio and the gallery are both closed due to the pandemic.  

Topics of discussion will include techniques of painting from tools and materials to the thought process and iconography within the painting.

Melanie Vote

Though Melanie Vote has lived in NYC for over 20 years, she grew up on a functional farm in Iowa. Her work straddles these two worlds, investigating the complexities of the human-land relationship, the cyclical nature of all life, and the impossibility of permanence. In temperate months she works remotely, painting outside. She is a visual scavenger collecting passages, then returns to the studio to reconstruct layers of a place, weaving them together into open-ended narratives.

She received her BFA from Iowa State University and her MFA in Painting from New York Academy of Art. Vote was a recipient of a Pollock‐Krasner Foundation Grant in 2007 and has been awarded many residencies including The Vermont Studio Center, Jentel in Banner, WY, AHAD in Abu Dhabi, UAE, The Grand Canyon and is looking forward to attending The Weir Farm program in CT sometime later this year.Vote has taught at The New School, NYAA and NJCU and Pratt Institute. Additionally, Vote has been a visiting artist at numerous schools including the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.Her most recent body of work, The Washhouse, Nothing Ever Happened Here, at Equity Gallery opened March 2020 and is on view virtually, via Artsy.