Melinda Camber Porter (1953-2008)

Share
Facebook Google plus Twitter
Join Our Mailing List
  • Home
  • Biography
  • Fine Art
  • Journalism
  • Literature
  • Film & Photography
  • Criticism
  • Books
  • News
  • Contact
BACK

1996 Salon des Artistes, New York

  • New in Fine Art
    • New in Fine Art
  • Paintings
    • Art of Love Tour
    • Barcelona Point Series
    • Fashion in the Time of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603)
    • Journey to Benares Series
    • Luminous Bodies Series
    • Luminous Bodies - Circles of Celebration
    • Luminous Bodies - Circles of Mourning
    • Night Angel Series
    • The Triptych Series
  • Public Exhibitions
    • 2016 University of South Dakota
    • 2010 Lincoln Center: Clark Studio, New York
    • 2010 Buffalo Ridge, Gary, SD
    • 2010 John Jermain Memorial Library, Sag Harbor, NY
    • 2006 School of Visual Arts, New York
    • 2006 British Consulate, New York
    • 2005 Paul Labrecque Salon, New York
    • 2005 Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
    • 2004 Oxford University, Oxford, UK
    • 2003 Asia Society Museum, New York, NY
    • 2002 Art for Healing Gallery, New York
    • 1999 Southampton College, Southampton, NY
    • 1996 Salon des Artistes, New York
    • 1995 Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY
    • 1993-6 The Art of Love Exhibition of Art, Books and Film

The Film Censor's Stepdaughter 

 

March 28 - April 17, 1996

Salon des Artistes, New York

 

An intriguing and provocative solo show featuring thirty works of oil on canvas and watercolors on paper, exhibited on the occasion of the publication of Melinda’s novel Badlands.

Melinda epitomizes a goal of a salon, to eliminate false boundaries and encourage cross-over in the arts.

Wholly personal, wholly emotional, Camber Porter’s pictures transport us to another world…her world, where vast seas of emotion engulf, richly hot fires burn, and couples unite in spiritual ecstasy.

Her art is not for the timid. It seems on the surface seductively natural, simple almost, with its happy undiluted colors and sketch-like brushwork; but there is a brazen outspokenness to it that befits a film censor’s step-daughter. Yet the sweetness of her sheltered youth lingers in the yearning for ideal live.

 

Melinda on her step-father’s impact on her art: “It’s probably also true that if he had been a minister, my work might not be so filmic, but I would have painted the same thing, because spirituality is what my work is about, the quest for the truth in human relationships. It’s funny to think of a film censor and a minister having the same impact, but underlying both mentalities is an understanding of human nature. Of course, their answer is to try to curb or control it under the guise of societal good or religious conviction; mine is simply to exalt it.”

Overview of the exhibit

 

About Salon des Artistes:

Artistic expression – wether through the visual image, the spoken or written word, or the musical cord – was the bread and wine of late 19th and early 20th century salons in Europe. Artists weren’t defined by a métier, but rather by a philosophy that encouraged expression and didn’t set limits or boundaries.

In that tradition, the private gallery, Salon des Artistes, curates exhibitions and presents artists, be they writers, musicians, sculptors, painters or poets, in an environment that facilitates appreciation of their art.

 

More about the novel Badlands here

© 2015 - Melinda Camber Porter   |   Website by Hamptons Web Design