Melissa Markowitz Artist

Welcome to the artwork of Melissa Markowitz. We comedian often extract the content for our subject matter from the circumstances of our lives.

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Born and raised in South Florida, educated in private schools where I was the victim of social privilege, I was always aware that, for some reason, I had a different kind of social consciousness from my peers. Unlike a social conscience, which relates to economic and political awareness, social consciousness relates to the manner in which people relate to themselves and each oth

er. As a high school student, I didn’t frame that thought consciously; I merely knew that I was “way” different from the people around me. Once I escaped from the privileged environment of the private school milieu, and landed in a liberal college campus, I realized that I perceived social relationships from a completely different perspective: the outsider looking in. I am something of a comedian, with a droll, dry sense of humor that is often expressed through personal rebellion, which often creates a wonderful cognitive dissonance when the audience contrasts my youthful, ugh, innocent appearance with some of the blatant themes with which I work. We compile sets of rivaling lyrics to metaphorically and humorously compare our personal lives with the lives of the people around us, comparing the internal “I” with the outside “they”. My underlying focus drives itself from human interaction and the humor cantors itself from my satirical intentions. My intentions are not to be rile but the most humorous scenes excrete themselves from inferior interrogation. The awkward, unspoken moments between people trying to communicate has become a large inspiration. I begin with the facial expression ,or narrative and branch the physical relationship downward, reacting with the psychological interaction with the environmental setting. Since childhood I have been an observer of human formalities. Whether it be facial or physical, the inner state of emotional thought often becomes transparent to me. The work I make is constantly fed from my perceptions. My work gravitates towards social abnormalities. I prefer to focus on characters that are oblivious to their surroundings, not paying attention to the opinion of another, completely immersed in their own world. My passion is to conjure characters not outwardly realizing their friend or foe observation. These characters become a family of unknowns. The characters I create are totally submersed in their own world, something I truly desire to achieve. Each character and narrative are an anomaly of what I desire to become in some state. Every flaw I cautiously suppress finds itself veining through my characters. Melissa Markowitz holds a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art from Appalachian State University

07/16/2019

Don’t let haters get you. They are all around. They can’t dash your dreams. If your dream is stronger than their hate it will only sting for a second. Let it sting. You have to be open. I challenge you to stay open, let it sting and then walk ten feet away. If your dream is stronger than their hate - your dream will inflate (again) momentarily. That is our hope - to those of us that have a Dream. Martin Luther King called it a dream. Some people call it a wish. Some people call it winning. Call these people your people. All of a sudden the pool will get a lot bigger and your friends will appear like a field of continuous flowers sprouting. Now you’ll have the site to see them. 🌻

07/15/2019

Push past the feelings, beyond the pressure - and the work gets done. You may not know it but tomorrow it will get done a little bit more and then the next day and the next and then you take that energy into other things. It deposits. Said one artist to the world. - Melissa Markowitz - Happy B Day to me

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07/14/2019

Crinkly wood

07/14/2019

Got saw dust?

07/12/2019

When someone tells you to just go with the flow - it is one of the most rude things someone can say. Perhaps the person they are telling has no idea what ‘the flow’ is. I think that it is the person who is telling. I think that they are too embarrassed to admit that they didn’t know what the flow was at one point. They assume that everyone else knew but them so now when they share it to protect that time they didn’t know. But gosh they say it with such confidence - ‘Just go with the flow baby!’ Didn’t you not know.. you must have.

Melissa Markowitz

07/11/2019

I am making badass laminated wood pieces. Stay tuned. This is going to be tight!

06/30/2019

When you first start making art you will bear your soul and it will be uncomfortable to share it because it is a reflection of yourself that you are attached to. This is why criticism or sharing can be so hard. The real success comes when you can take your story and attach it to a completely different character. This is the point where your art becomes objective. You can write a story about a child, an adult, the elderly, an orphan... you don’t have the be the character to write about it, you just have to be an aspect of it and then expand your audience all while being ok that what you make is not you. You become unattached and become the honorary creator. There is a lot more discussion on this but that is an entirely different conversation that can lead to a book. - Melissa Markowitz

06/29/2019

Wrapping a plaster cast glove in ioban surgical prep. If I can get a hold of this stuff I might experiment with it more. Maybe on a face.

06/29/2019

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