

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.



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