Melinda Steffy
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Melinda Steffy
@melindasteffy.bsky.social
ARTIST mixing up geometric abstraction, information painting & folk art melindasteffy.com ✴️ NONPROFIT CONSULTING concentricstrategy.org ✴️ CO-EXEC cultureworksphila.org
Constellation 1
Acrylic chalk paint on stitched canvas
2025
Size varies from 11"x11" to 13"x13"

#VisualArt #AbstractArt #GeometricAbstraction #Painter #PhillyArtist #DelcoArtist #QuiltBlock #Stars #StarQuilt
April 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
These are inspired by the 5 Romance languages that were recorded as #55Greetings & sent into space on the #VoyagerGoldenRecord: Portuguese, Romanian, French, Spanish & Italian. Here, my visual translation is nearly erased, except for the outline, as if the meaning didn't quite survive the journey.
April 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
SONG 1: Booth Killed Lincoln
acrylic on wood panel, based on a 19th-century folk ballad, as sung by Bascom Lamar Lunsford
24”x42”
2018
April 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
SONG 2: God Moves on the Water
acrylic on wood panel, based on a blues song by Blind Willie Johnson
24”x30”
2018
April 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
SONG 3: Great Dust Storm
acrylic on wood panel, based on a folk ballad by Woody Guthrie
36”x42”
2018
April 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
SONG 4: Ruination Day
acrylic on wood panel, based on a song by Gillian Welch
24”x18”
2018
April 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
⚡ Shout out to @tsanetwork Philly for hosting the first exhibition of this work back in 2019, to @besadmusic for their incredible performance in the gallery, and to @inliquid for including the first 3 songs in their current exhibit at Park Towne Place.
April 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
🎉 And hbd to this kid, who was 3 in the picture and turns 9 tomorrow, who had the good fortune to be born the day AFTER Ruination Day.
April 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
It is mine! Called a hellebore or a Lenten rose, one of the first plants to bloom at the end of winter
March 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM