Past Resident
Melissa Dunn
Melissa Dunn’s studio is in her house in Memphis, TN, the city where she was born and has spent most of her life. Her contemplative drawings and paintings are based in abstraction and informed by her musical life, her gardening life, her personal collection of artwork, and a close study of the world. She exhibits locally and regionally and is an active member of her local arts community. She has taught at Flicker Street Studio for over 10 years and Carpenter Art Garden for over seven years and served on the ArtsMemphis Artist Advisory Council for three years. Among Melissa’s most recent projects is a large piece for the newly renovated Memphis International Airport awarded by the Urban Art Commission.
“Shapes surround us and are within us. Stories accumulate within shapes, carrying the weight of a lifetime and of a passing thought. When color, pattern, line, and marks distort and warp a shape, it morphs into something beyond a container. My drawings and paintings are the communication between the shapes that live in my imagination and the shapes the world offers, where stream of consciousness and intention meet.”
