Melone

Inscriptions

Signed, and inscribed, in graphite, lower left: T.P.E. MELONE J. Pfaff 1987

Label

About her own work, Judy Pfaff recently said, “There’s a kind of nervousness. There is always a bouncing around, like a lot of things you can really look at. Most art makes you think. It calms you down. You get reflective. Mine is like—What is that? Why is that? No one says what a peaceful place this is to live in this world.” Comprised of silkscreen and woodcut elements, Melone almost seems to rotate. Bold, organic forms interlock and overlap in a vibrant composition that pushes at its edges. How do you experience this work when you really look at it closely?

From the 2024 exhibition Immersive Worlds: Real and Imagined, curated by Amelia Kahl, Barbara C. & Harvey P. Hood 1918 Senior Curator of Academic Programming and Neely McNulty, Hood Foundation Curator of Education

Course History

FILM 47, Cut & Paste Cinema, Jodie Mack, Winter 2012

WRIT 5, Expository Writing, William Craig, Winter 2014

FILM 44.02/SART 17.19, Cut and Paste Cinema, Jodie Mack, Spring 2019

College Course 26.01, What's in Your Toolbox?, Francine A'Ness and Mokhtar Bouba, Fall 2024

Philosophy 23.01, Art and Aesthetics, John Kulvicki, Fall 2024

Exhibition History

Immersive Worlds: Real and Imagined, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 13-September 29, 2024.

In Residence: Contemporary Art at Dartmouth, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 18-July 6, 2014.

Publication History

Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009, p.182, no.183.

Michael R. Taylor and Gerald Auten, In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2013, ill. p. 75 , no. 62

Provenance

Susan R. Malloy; given to present collection, 2001.

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