About
The collaborative studio of Jennifer Melby specializes in
intaglio
printmaking and offers artists and publishers facilities for a full
range of platemaking, proofing and editioning services, as well as
steelfacing of copper plates. She opened her studio in the early
1980’s on the Bowery and it is now in downtown Brooklyn, near
the
Brooklyn Bridge.
Jennifer Melby has worked with the following notable
publishers:
Baron/Boisante, Peter Blum Editions, Brooke Alexander Editions,
Cleveland Museum Print Club, Diane Villani Editions, Fawbush Editions,
Galerie Bernd Kluser, Multiples, Parasol Press, and Michael Steinberg
Fine Art.
Artists commissioned by these publishers include Kamrooz Aram,
Donald Baechler, Michael Byron, Eric Fischl, Janet Fish, Jane
Freilicher, Joanne Greenbaum, Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Red Grooms,
Michael Hurson, Julia Jacquette, Darina Karpov, Jane Kent, Andrew Lord,
Brice Marden, Dan McCarthy, Suzanne McClelland, Sean Mellyn, Paul Henry
Ramirez, Sean Scully, Andy Spence, Nicola Tyson, and Michele Zalopany.
In addition to etching projects for these publishers, Jennifer
Melby has published editions by Joanne Greenbaum, Bob Moskowitz, Andy
Spence, Craig Taylor, and Nicola Tyson.
Prints made in her studio have been acquired by many
contemporary
print collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York Public
Library, Whitney Museum, Houston Museum of Fine Art, Cleveland Museum
of Art, Smith College, Tate Gallery , Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich,
and the Yale University Art Gallery.
Jennifer Melby has taught at Pratt Institute, Yale University,
and
the Lower East Side Printshop, and has led workshops at Brandeis,
Cooper Union, Lehman College, RISD and Yale University.
Contact
Email: jmelby@nyc.rr.com
Mailing Address:
110 Wyckoff Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201