Melanie is a graduate of UCLA where she earned a degree in Ethnic Arts with an emphasis in Anthropology.

Her functional work has been sold in galleries and museum stores throughout the United States since the early 1990s.

Her turn to non-functional work in the last several years has most recently been shown in "Pattern Play" at the Brand Art Gallery, in Glendale, California, Aug./Sept. '07 and will soon be at the 98ten Fine Arts Gallery in Irvine, California, later this year.

Her work is intuitive. Rather than starting out with a concept to convey, the work reveals its meaning after the process unfolds. It is never intended to have a single interpretation.

She sees human beings as having two unique capacities. . . . . to break rules and to be creative, and appreciates the inherent intimacy between those two concepts.

While other species have a pre-programmed set of behaviors they must follow in order to survive, humans have plasticity in their "survival script." She believes that all creativity embodies at least some break with generally accepted rules or standards.

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email: melanie@melanierothschild.com