Art Opening Reception: Friday, January 10, 2024 / 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm @ 9 Vassar Street

Hut on Bartow Pell Grounds (Double Exposure) by Melanie Gonzalez

Melanie Gonzalez is a fine photographer artist who creates multimedia films, wearable arts and textiles, photographic prints, and community art productions. Born and raised in the Bronx, her professional practice in the arts stems from an upbringing engaged in music, theater, sculpture and nature all in the heart of NYC. “As an artist photographer, I consider the medium to be my foundation, as I then have used my library of images to create video projects, jewelry, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu apparel, large format printed banners, photogravure prints, tiny books, studio pictures, and printed material,” she explained. “My practice involves my visual beautification as historical archive, and the wide web of physical collaborations that take place behind every image, whether to work with others to purchase the materials to create the work, or joining with others to visit sites of interest, commerce, learning, and transforming.” Gonzalez holds a Bachelor of Arts (Studio Art/Photography) from The City College of New York and has been the recipient of the 2023 Women’s Studio Workshop Summer Intensive Scholarship and the 2022 Creatives Rebuild NY Grant, and the 2015 Bronx Council on the Arts Grant, to name a few. In 2019, she founded Suzanna Productions operating in New Paltz, NY as a way to professionally present the multimedia creative solutions derived from her photography-making.