Opening Gallery Reception:
Thurs Oct 5 | 6:00-7:30pm
Part love note, part meditation on mortality and part unsolicited advice, the grateful chair is an artist’s response to his spouse’s terminal cancer diagnosis. Between 2014 and 2017, Melinda Welsh was given a novel course of treatment (including the “Jimmy Carter drug”); in 2018, she was declared cancer-free. Combining video, iPhone images on metal, and an object d’arte, this narrative exhibit creates a place to consider love and loss: of all the different chairs we each occupy over the years, few are as misunderstood as the grateful chair.
