MELANIE BILENKER

Melanie Bilenker graduated from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 2000 where she studied under Sharon Church. In 2004 Melanie won the Sienna Gallery Emerging Artist Award and presented her first solo exhibition entitled, "Minutes". Since then her work has been included in Metalsmith Magazine's  Exhibition in Print, American Craft Magazine, and Lark Books' 1000 Rings and 500 Brooches, as well as  exhibitions around the world. Melanie's work is now in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Mint Museum in Charlotte, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Philadelphia Musuem of Art. Melanie Bilenker's work is an exciting mix of technical ingenuity and profoundly soulful concept.

"The Victorians kept lockets of hair and miniature portraits painted with ground hair and pigment to secure the memory of a lost love. In much the same way, I secure my memories through photographic images rendered in lines of my own hair, the physical remnants. I do not reproduce events, but quiet minutes, the mundane, the domestic, the ordinary moments. "

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