Melissa Rubin

Melissa Rubin Dancing
Melissa Rubin New Compass
Melissa Rubin Other World
Melissa Rubin Fierce Cat
Melissa Rubin Sanctuary Revisited #1
Melissa Rubin Reflection
Melissa Rubin Samurai
Melissa Rubin UNDERGROWTH
Melissa Rubin Rolling In
Melissa Rubin Weaving Water

Artworks 

Melissa Rubin Other World 2021
Melissa Rubin Weaving Water 2021

Melissa Rubin

Other World

2021

Japanese papers, wax, powdered malachite, pigment stick, silver leaf

15 x 13 in

$1500

Melissa Rubin

Weaving Water

2021

Masa paper, wax, powdered indigo, ink

15 x 12 in

$1,000

Melissa Rubin Fragment #12 2014

Melissa Rubin

Fragment #12

2014

Oil paint, powdered pigments, ink, encaustic on birch panel

11 x 9 in

$500

Melissa Rubin UNDERGROWTH 2022

Melissa Rubin

UNDERGROWTH

2022

gesso, artgraf on duralar mounted on paper

14 x 22 in, 18  x 24 in, framed

$700

Melissa Rubin Oblique Ridge 2018

Melissa Rubin

Oblique Ridge

2018

Charcoal and tempera paint on antique anatomy book page

10 x 7 in

$300

Melissa Rubin Resting 2018

Melissa Rubin

Resting

2018

Charcoal and tempera paint on antique anatomy book page

10 x 7 in

$300

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Melissa Rubin Transverse Branch (Head in a Cloud) 2018

Melissa Rubin

Transverse Branch (Head in a Cloud)

2018

Tempera paint on anatomy book page

10 x 7 in

$200

Melissa Rubin Dancing 2021

Melissa Rubin

Dancing

2021

21 x 15 in

Masa paper, encaustic, pigment mounted on birch panel

$650

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Melissa Rubin Reflection 2021

Melissa Rubin

Reflection

2021

Masa paper, encaustic, pigment, pastel mounted on birch panel

21 x 15 in

$650

Melissa Rubin Burning Bush #1 2016

Melissa Rubin

Burning Bush #1

2016

Solar Plate Etching, with Akua Inks on paper

10 x 8 in  

$325

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Melissa Rubin Tree Dance #3  2017

Melissa Rubin

Tree Dance #3 

2017

Solar Plate Etching with Akua Inks on paper

10 x 8 in

$350

Melissa Rubin Ellipsis 2021

Melissa Rubin

Ellipsis

2021

Various papers, wax, tape, pigments, silver leaf

12 x 10 in

Sold

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Melissa Rubin Fierce Cat 2007

Melissa Rubin

Fierce Cat

2007

Monotype made with Akua inks on paper

8 x 6 in

$350

Melissa Rubin

Positive Space

2004

Layered monotype on paper

10.5 x 8 in

$600

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Melissa Rubin

Transitions

2021

Masa paper, powdered indigo, wax, pigment stick

21 x 15 in

Sold

Melissa Rubin Samurai 2007

Melissa Rubin

Samurai

2007

Monotype made with Akua inks on paper

8 x 6 in

2007

$350

Melissa Rubin Sad Friend 2007
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Melissa Rubin

Stones

2009

Oil on masonite

7 x 8 in

$400

Melissa Rubin

Sad Friend

2007

Monotype made with Akua inks on paper

8 x 6 in

$350 

Melissa Rubin Sanctuary 2012
Melissa Rubin Flying 2020

Melissa Rubin

Sanctuary

2012

Oil paint, powdered pigment, collage, encaustic on birch panel

15 x 12 in 

Sold

Melissa Rubin

Flying

2020

Wax, charcoal, ink, thread on paper

11 x 9.25 in

$400

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Melissa Rubin New Compass 2013

Melissa Rubin

New Compass

2013

Oil paint, oil stick, powdered pigment, collage, encaustic on birch panel

17 x 17 in

$550

Melissa Rubin

Pens and Brushes

2009

Oil on masonite

9 x 10 in

Sold

Melissa Rubin Rolling In 2013
Melissa Rubin Sanctuary Revisited #1 2016

Melissa Rubin

Rolling In

2013

Oil paint, oil stick, powdered pigment, ink, encaustic on birch panel

17 x 17 in

$550

Melissa Rubin

Sanctuary Revisited #1

2016

Solar Plate Etching with Akua Inks on paper

10 x 8 in 

$325

Melissa Rubin Perfect Sky 2013
Melissa Rubin Currents 2014

Melissa Rubin

Perfect Sky

2013

Oil paint, powdered pigment, encaustic on paper mounted on birch panel

19 x 11 in 

Sold

Melissa Rubin

Currents

2014

Oil paint, powdered pigment, ink, encaustic on birch panel

21 x 21 in

Sold

Melissa Rubin

American b. 1960 New York, NY, based in New York, NY



Artist’s Statement on work in MELISSA RUBIN Represented Artist Spotlight


My New York studio is in Rockaway Beach, Queens, and my work reflects this urban ocean environment. 

Using a mixed-media approach, including oil paints, encaustic (wax), powdered pigment and a variety of other materials, I choose media that helps to facilitate a sense of mystery and light, both internal and external. Living and working a mere 400 ft. from the Atlantic Ocean, I experienced, first-hand, the destruction of Hurricane Sandy (I know Vermonters are no stranger to the destructive power of wind and water as Hurricane Irene left a path of ruin throughout the state in 2011). This work is a direct result of that experience, being in Sandy’s path for hours on that night. 

After the water receded, and I was able to see the extent of the devastation, my art took on a new sense of urgency; it needed to be made in order to process the trauma I experienced. The larger works in this spotlight reflects a rising up, and re-growth, after so much destruction. The four smaller pieces, from my ‘Fragments’ series, directly references the shards of tiles and pottery cast up from the sea, and remnants of people’s homes that were strewn across the beach after the hurricane. The ocean now has new meaning to me; it is a vital and powerful life force that can provide and take away at the same time. The transient nature of water, the tides, and all it’s rhythms, has earned my deepest respect and awe. 



Statement about works in VERMONT SUMMER GROUP SHOW


These works explore my relationship with the urban ocean environment where my studio is, in Rockaway Beach, NYC. They speak to my first-hand experience with Hurricane Sandy in 2012.  Living a mere 300 feet from the ocean, I had direct contact with the storms impact; the high winds, the flooding of my home, the destruction of so much around me.  The pieces are my attempt to express the power, strength, mystery and beauty of nature.


Biography

Melissa Rubin, a New York City and Vermont-based artist, was a recent participant with the Master Abstraction Residency at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. Her work has earned her a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) grant, as well as a Fulbright Teacher Fellowship to Japan. Rubin’s work has been featured in ARTnews Magazine, Encaustic Arts Magazine, on CBS This Morning, and has been used in performances and movie sets. Her art has been exhibited in solo and numerous group exhibitions. The most recent venues to show her work is ODETTA Digital on SHIM Art Network; the John Molloy Gallery NYC; Atlantic Gallery NYC; Canal Street Gallery, Bellows Falls, VT; Main Street Arts, Saxtons River, VT; Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY; Cerulean Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Art on Paper Fair at Pier 36 NYC; San Luis Obispo Museum of Art CA; the Museum of the City of New York; The Burgdorff Gallery of Southern Vermont College Bennington, VT. Her art is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Encaustic Art in Santa Fe, NM and many of her works are in private collections in the United States and Europe.

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