Melanie Stevens Bio

Melanie Stevens was born in 1979 in Miami, Florida, and raised in Atlanta, GA. She began her artistic studies in 1993 at Cedar Grove High School where she studied Basic and Advanced Painting and Drawing, as well as Independent Study Visual Arts for four years. She minored in the Governors' Honors Fine Arts Program at Valdosta State University in 1996 and graduated from Cedar Grove High School at the top of her class in 1997. She took several drawing and painting courses at Yale University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 2001.

Melanie has been very active within the Atlanta art community. She has been commissioned to complete works for several private collections and has participated in various art walks, sketchbook projects, group, and solo art exhibits. Her work has been shown at galleries such as Fine Line Art, MINT, WonderRoot Community Arts, Art House Co-op, Brooklyn Art Library, and the Defoor Centre, as well as the Atlanta-Fulton County Library. Some of her work has also been viewed on the national television program, College Hill: Atlanta, on the BET Network.

Melanie's work is strongly influenced by the modern traditions of Cubism and Surrealism and she works in paint and pastels to create a texture of edge and form. Her combination of feminist images matched with vibrant color draws the viewer into her work to have them explore their own self.