ARTS Southeast is pleased to host Melinda Borysevicz in the ON::View Residency from August 7th – October 3rd, 2025.
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About the Artist: Melinda Borysevicz (Cilento, Italy)
Melinda Borysevicz is an Italian-American figurative artist currently living and working in rural southern Italy. After participating for many years in Savannah’s vibrant creative scene, she traveled to a village not too far from her ancestral home. “A couple months away” has turned into several years after Borysevicz stayed to continue to paint. Her narrative portrait and figure paintings spring directly from her personal experience of having re-discovered this special place.
Borysevicz received a BFA in Painting from Savannah College of Art and Design (Savannah, GA) magna cum laude. Her work was selected for Manifest Gallery’s International Painting Annual as well as for Figurativas 19 at the European Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona, where she has previously exhibited. She has also exhibited at the Museo Pablo Sarrano in Zaragosa Spain, the RJD Gallery in New York, Abend Gallery in Colorado, and numerous locations in Georgia, Virginia, Ohio, Texas, and Italy. She teaches painting workshops on the portrait, the clothed figure, and the landscape en plein air.
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About the Project
“I’ve been intrigued by the theme of processions the past few years, initially inspired by the religious processions that happen with regularity in every village where I live in southern Italy. These processions recall ancient local practices of bringing gifts to the gods that once protected this area and mirror similar events in every culture. I started to imagine what a contemporary Savannah procession might look like...an assembly of characters moving together towards their to-be-determined destination. The figures and faces for this work will come directly from Savannah’s historic and contemporary milieu: portrait sittings will be open to the public, leaving space for spontaneous participation and conversations about the past, present, and future of Savannah.”
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Happy Hour Meet & Greet and Project Introduction: Monday, August 11th, 6PM at ARTS Southeast
Artist Talk: TBA
Project Finale: Friday, October 3rd, 5-9PM in conjunction with First Fridays in Starland
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The ON::View Residency is made possible with investment by the City of Savannah.
This program is sponsored in part by Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. Georgia Council for the Arts also receives support from its partner agency - the National Endowment for the Arts.
Special thanks to our local Residency Sponsors: Starlandia Supply, SCAD Museum of Art, Telfair Museums, Thompson Savannah, Green Truck Pub and Starland Yard.
You may also like the following events from ARTS Southeast:
- This Saturday, 9th August, 05:00 pm, "Wild Thing" | ARTS Southeast Summer Supporter Exhibition, May 22nd - Aug 9th, 2025 in Savannah
- Next Monday, 11th August, 06:00 pm, Happy Hour Meet & Greet + Project Introduction: ON::View Artist-in-Residence Melinda Borysevicz in Savannah
- Next Saturday, 16th August, 05:00 pm, "Whistling in the Dark:" Debora Oden in The Ellis Gallery at ARTS Southeast: July 4 - Aug 16, 2025 in Savannah
Also check out other
Arts events in Savannah,
Fine Arts events in Savannah,
Workshops in Savannah.
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