Melissa Mohammadi

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View fullsize Grateful to be here, with you, in this flawed yet beautiful point in space and time. 
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View fullsize My work explores the long-tail effects of interpersonal and societal trauma through the lens of botany and landscape as guide and witness.

‘Euphoria Cache’ is a collection of celebratory natural forms, mainly given to me by my children a
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View fullsize Bid now! @icasanjose 🎉 
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‘Autotelic Atmosphere’, carved lines in watercolor on panel, 16” x 16” on a 2” cradled panel, 2024
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I was honored when @jamesgleventhal asked me to offer a piece for the Institute of Contempor
View fullsize I’m excited to share a selection of drawings, paintings, collages and a carved work on panel this year with @artspansf SF Open Studios! I installed yesterday at my dear friend @natasha_tsozik ‘s light-filled and inspiring studio in the Do
View fullsize Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate the opening of GROW @paloaltoartcenter last weekend! Especial thanks to curator Marianne McGrath @theartistcollector for including my work in this wild, diverse and thought-provoking exhibition. 

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View fullsize “GROW” opens this Friday evening, September 20th, with a celebration 6:00-8:00pm, free and open to the public. Please join us!

The “GROW” exhibition at Palo Alto Art Center, curated by Marianne McGrath, presents twenty-two ar
View fullsize Fall studio news heading out today! ✨Sign up for my newsletter in my linktree or send me your email address if you’d like to stay connected. So grateful to share this journey with you! 

#artexhibition #studionews #ecoart #motherartist #westcoa
View fullsize Stringing through the summer days from one beautiful light and silhouette and moment to another. Do you create a ladder for yourself of joy steps? On particularly hot days, I shade-hop with the kids on walks, from one pool to another, dallying to sta
View fullsize I’m thinking often about how plants see, and how we see - radiant electromagnetic energy from nuclear fusion on the sun (light) triggers a cascade of changes in either our nerve cells or plant tissues. Specific wavelengths of light energy (colo
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View fullsize My pendulum has swung deeply into caregiving this past month — surprisingly, necessarily. I’m especially grateful to have my studio at home to slip into at dawn if I’ve rested enough. 

#motherartist #caregiver #tired #pigment #redi
View fullsize I am so very grateful to be invited back to a bookmaking and printmaking residency @incahootsresidency this fall in Petaluma, CA!

My hopes for this uninterrupted period of work are to digest and compost the sensory explorations of my spring residenc
View fullsize I’ve been lowering myself into warm waters of unknowing in my studio again as I begin new work. 

Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry, Essays by Jane Hirshfield is a welcome companion. 

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