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Joyce Melander-Dayton: Mid-Career Retrospective at The Rymer Gallery

Presented by The Rymer Gallery at The Rymer Gallery

April 3-April 24, 2010

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Joyce Melander-Dayton: Mid-Career Retrospective at The Rymer Gallery

A mid-career retrospective exhibition featuring 25 years of works by the renowned Sant-Fe basted artist Joeyce Melander Dayton will open at the Rymer Gallery! Melander-Dayton creates contemporary textile works that pull from her childhood experiences in Asia, her love of music, and the workaday elements of her life.

Melander-Dayton began her career as a painter; her works,representational and hyper-realistic,were juxtaposed with strips...

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Melander-Dayton began her career as a painter; her works,representational and hyper-realistic,were juxtaposed with strips of color and repetition. Moving on from this series of work, Melander-Dayton incorporated beadwork, embroidery, and waeving into her works, eventually leaving the confines of the canvas to create wall and table-top installations. As art writer, Hilaries M.Sheets writes in the exhibition catalogue, "Melander-Dayton has found tremendous freedom in reinventing traditional crafts in a contemporary context - creating these abstract forms that fluctuate between suggestions of macro and micro, complexity and simplicity."

Image: #90 1992 Pencil on paper 10 x 8 in.

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The Rymer Gallery

233 Fifth Avenue North
Nashville, TN 37219

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Free and open to the public

General Day and Time Info:

Opening Reception:
Saturday, April 3, 6:00pm-9:00pm

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday-Saturday, 11:00am-6:00pm

Phone: (615) 752-6030

Accessibility Info: Currently, no accessibility information is available for this event.

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