I’m excited to share my interview with Kate Jetmore of The Listen Podcast. We had a great time talking about getting unstuck and, well, something paranormal happens…
Derick Melander creates clothing sculpture that explores the intersection between global consumerism and the intimate relationship we have with what we wear. About my work
Derick was a New York Foundation for the Arts grant recipient for 2019, 2021 and 2023 to create new works in the public realm of Queens, NY.
Upcoming
05/2025 Two-person show with Kelly Reemtsen, Gallery Oxholm, Vesterdage 19D, 4600 Koge, Denmark
Podcasts: Let it Out | The Listen
“A Cloud Reveals the Moon”, the making of a modular Clothing Sculpture
“Making clothing sculpture for over 20 years, I’ve come across countless hand-sewn repairs, pants with threadbare knees and coats with names written inside the collar. These traces of life have led me to think of my works as collective portraits. As the sculptures grow and the layers of clothing accumulate, the individual garments are compressed into a single mass. This symbolic gesture explores the complicated space between the individual and society, a space that is ceaselessly broken and re-constituted.” More about my clothing sculptures
I'm excited to be kicking off two projects with FIT this spring. I'll be presenting a visiting artist lecture and working as an artist in residence.
I'll tell you how I came to focus on second-hand clothing, I'll review key projects and I'll share some entertaining case studies.
To Live is to Leave Traces takes place in a storefront art studio, open to the public, in the heart of Jackson Heights.
To Live is to Leave Traces takes place in a storefront art studio, open to the public, in the heart of Jackson Heights.
To Live is to Leave Traces takes place in a storefront art studio, open to the public, in the heart of Jackson Heights.
To Live is to Leave Traces took place in a storefront art studio, open to the public, in the heart of Jackson Heights.
Really happy to be providing space to this dynamic, young group of artists. The final blow-out of my Jackson Heights pop-up studio will feature music, performance, dance, theatre..
Clothing assemblages wrapped on panels (OK, maybe there is a wig in the first one!). Also, ideas for outdoor sculptures that explore the idea of marking, directing, instructing... but lacking meaning.
Study for a quilt of sorts where the arms project upward.. plus two other drawings from the archive.