Melissa McGill

New Exhibition is Opening at TOTAH in NYC

I am happy to announce that my upcoming exhibition, Ripple, is opening at TOTAH, (183 Stanton Street, New York) on Wednesday, November 12 from 6-8pm.

If you are in NY, I’d love to see you there!

In these works, I am exploring the re-mapping of watersheds to celebrate water’s own expression while deepening our collective attunement to its language. This project grows from a longstanding exploration of water as both living material and metaphor, and from my conviction that we, as human beings, are not separate from water but are ourselves bodies of water; one body resonating with another. These maps function as sensorial records of water’s movements and voices.

Two large-scale watercolors, Ebb and Flow (7th dimension), employ a grid as framework, inviting water to mediate the natural pigments, creating tides of color that reveal their shifting relationships. I made these works after returning to my studio, reflecting on A Lake Story which took place last month in Lake Ontario in Toronto.