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"Silver Lining"
Saturday, December 8, 2007 from 6:00 PM to 10:00 pm at Pine Bay Gallery and Gifts, Matlacha Florida
At the 2007 Art for A.C.T.S. auction (the annual fine-art auction to benefit battered women) someone asked artist Robert Rauschenburg if Mel Meo was a local artist. his response was, “No, “said Rauschenburg, “She’s everywhere!” Mel Meo, who will be hosting a wide array of friends and fans at Pine Bay Gallery in Matlacha on December 8, says that her art begins at home, on Pine Island, “but I want it, the art, to move out, unilaterally, not just in space, but in time. That’s the beauty of it, that the work goes over the [Matlacha] bridge, out into the world”. As, indeed, it has. Meo’s art can be seen in almost every home on Pine Island, but has also traveled abroad, much further than the artist, herself, has traveled. Yet.
The show that Mel will present this holiday season is all about
movement, a metaphor for positive motion in a world turned
inside out. This new body of work has an element of
timelessness, a bit of “old Florida” nostalgia juxtaposed with a
new, Andy Wahol-inspired quality of a photographic negative.
Colors are simplified, but the images themselves are timeless,
with the dream-seeming ether of silver such as that surrounding
a Matlacha and Pine Island have a history of itinerant movement, of “trailer life”. It is the workingman’s paradise, and Mel is, like the Highwaymen, a workingman’s artist, lending an air of the spectacular to the ordinary. This is an exuberant outward journey for Mel, who often works from dreams, from an inner journey that pushes her, always, toward the mysterious good, toward rebirth, toward life. “It is another beginning,” says Meo, “like opening a door into the great gray void of what-comes-next.” Also, in the spirit of giving and love, several raffles will take place to benefit “Our Mother’s Home”, a program keeping teen foster mothers and their children together, breaking the foster cycle, teaching transitioning skills, and overcoming histories of abuse. The prototype home has 8 mother and 8 babies living, learning and growing in 1 loving home in Southwest Florida.
The Silver Lining presentation will include a fabulous Italian menu, created by the artists own hands. Refreshments will be provided courtesy of Bert’s Bar and Grill. Pine Bay Gallery and Gifts is located at 4332 Pine Island Road, at the northeast corner of the drawbridge that spans Matlacha Pass. Call 239-283-1335 for more information |
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