Melinda Hackett is a New York and Southampton based
painter and print maker. Her work references the natural
world as seen through her mind’s eye and is meant to be
experienced as a visual playground rather than taken literally.
Her forms float in, out and around the surfaces, sometimes
diving in and out of the picture plane. They can be seen as
intimate views through a microscope, or cosmic views
through a telescope.
In addition to oil she works in watercolor, pencil, ink and
recently egg tempera. As the collaboration MDMH she
works with the sculptor Michael Drury to render her forms
in bronze, wood and concrete.
Her work is in many public and private collections including
the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York. She divides
her time between between the East End of Long Island and Manhattan.
