John K. Melvin
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John K. Melvin (born May 9, 1976) is a conceptual artist working with installations. He has had major installations in the U.S. and France.
John Melvin was born in Oakland, California. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts, and holds a Post-Baccalaurate from the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art in France.
L'Aven Project was a series of thirty-six translucent white mesh scrim panels of geometrical shapes along the path of the Aven River in Pont-Aven, France. The installation was on view to the public from July 29 to September 3, 2006. The artist has said that it:
- seeks to expand and collapse the viewpoints along the river, question the viewer’s place in time, memory, and physical location. ...As light and shadow define the way we see and thereby define our observed spectrum of color, the white translucent scrims will create a system of negotiation through which different perceptual effects will occur.
3000 Decisions is installed at the Massachusetts College of Art. It is in the southwest stairwell between the 2nd and 3rd floors of the Kennedy building on the corner of Huntington Avenue and Longwood Avenue. Approximately 3,000 pieces of hand-cut, hand-welded clear plexiglas were used in its construction. Fabrication of 3000 Decisions took three months. It can be viewed during campus hours by checking with security.
He was a participant in MAC 2006, a contemporary art event in Paris, France, November 22–26, 2006. An exhibit of works related to L'Aven Project took place at the CIAC (International Center for Contemporary Art) in Pont-Aven, France in the summer of 2006. Melvin's work was recently on view in the group exhibition Convergence at the Tolbooth Art Centre in Kirkcudbright, Scotland. His work was seen in a group show at Mack B Gallery in Sarasota, Florida November 2006.
