Melissa A. Calderon

I would consider myself a bricoleur of texture & medium; jumping from soft, ephemeral tissues to gilded, resin roosters. I enjoy working in different ways & consider it vital to how I can create a cohesive vision. Using installation, photography, sculpture & video, the foundation of my work remains rooted in exploring the gap of disconnection from traditional roles; whether they are gender or culturally based.

Being a Latina artist holds countless cultural connotations that go toe to toe with societal pressures and gendered roles - mother, provider and creator. The work addresses issues of vulnerability, determination and the obsessive thought process of art-making. Working with ephemeral materials such as birch branches, hair, & sculpted tissues, I examine the indeterminacy & potentiality of the artists’ “road less traveled”; from change through the process of becoming.

www.melissacalderon.com