Melissa Zexter combines embroidery with photography. She sews by hand directly onto printed images she has taken her self. Her area of expertise is to explore the photographs material status as well as to examine issues of identity, memory and technology. And has also exhibited throughout the United States and internationally including the bronx museum of arts and more.
many of the patterns she embroiders are abstract reproductions of personal souvenirs: floral patterns from childhood dresses or a bus route of her home town etc. The patterns serve as webs and grids over the photographs, providing another dimension to the images. the sewing also creates a filtered experience, like the way emotions and personal history alter everyday perception.
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