OA#8.2 Photographer Artist Research: Melissa Zexter

Melissa Zexter studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design and continued with her graduate study at New York University.  She uses digital prints and gelatin silver prints when working with photography, but then after taking her photos, she enhances them with the use of embroidery.  She has no formal training in the textile arts, but uses needle and thread to augment photography and create new works.  She has said that adding embroidery to her photography makes her works more personal and allows her to react to the past that the photograph depicts.  I especially like her work because it takes a relatively easy to reproduce technique, photography, and adds an intricately unique element that distinguishes each copy of the work.

Sources:
http://www.textileartist.org/melissa-zexter-interview-embroidered-photography/
http://www.melissazexter.com/new-color