friends, radio (silence), and a life of making

Melissa Dunn, John Ros, Studio ELL, JPK, and a print

Last night I spent some time reading an essay on my friend Melissa Dunn’s work. Melissa is a Memphis-based artist— a coal-miner kind of painter, working at dusk and dawn, out of the “light of day” of the brash, social media metrics of now (though she is there). Melissa makes work like breathing, full stop. Her practice is deep, her abstraction is a stud…