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   nancy_mellon@sbcglobal.net

    Member of the Village Artisans

Mellon's art- and her life- are eclectic.  An acting career took her to NYC.   While auditioning, she studied at The Art Students League, and spent years creating sculptures in various mixed media.  Starting with clay and cloth, she created a "Beverly Sills" sculpture displayed at the art gallery of the NY Metropolitan Opera.   "Beverly Sills" led to a commission from the Met gallery to create a portrait sculpture of Lotte Lehman as The Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier.  

Striving for a more alive form, Mellon began sculpting with a combination of clay heads and paper mache bodies on wire armatures.   During these years she also painted portraits, designed greeting cards and co-created a board game.   

In Massachusetts she wrote children's stories and in Illinois she wrote and performed a one-woman show, "Magnificent Women of the Civil War," while homeschooling her two boys.

After moving to Los Angeles, the artist began a series of classic nude sculptures culminating in her bronze statue "The Croning" a celebration of women at 50.  California also saw the creation of "the Athena Series" a series of nude-photo spoofs on familiar paintings and sculptures.

In 2003, drawn by the artistic, small town warmth and integrity of Yellow Springs, Ohio, Mellon and her family settled into the 1876 home of Wheeling Gaunt in downtown Yellow Springs.  So far, she has completed 25 ink and colored pencil drawings of local historical buildings.

For Opera Memories, a show presented at One Dayton Center in 2005, Mellon created a series of sculptures depicting opera stars and their fans.

Mellon is currently working with California collaborator, Elizabeth Snider, on a show about breast cancer.