Melissa Vogley Woods (she/her) born and living in Columbus, Ohio, USA

Melissa Vogley Woods is a multidisciplinary visual artist working between painting and sculpture, drawn to where sediment and time gather. She is interested in confluence; whether in layers of history, layers of the earth, or layers of sentiment, and where these layers rupture, break, are reformed and healed. Through layering, erasure, and reconstruction she forages across experience and time, grappling with the past, both close and deep. Vogley Woods’ work explores the earth's geologic time scale and she asks, how does thinking in the earth’s time, mass and scale affect our own? She utilizes the little known and slow baroque-era material that uncannily mimics marble called scagliola invented during the European baroque. Her sculptures function as threshold objects, teetering and conflating the body and the earth.

melissavogleywoods@gmail dot com