Melisa Gerecci artist































Melisa Gerecci
megerecci@gmail.com
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Gerecci uses drawing, printmaking, and sculpture to tell stories through interventions and experimental narrative structures. Her work is held by the Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Fine Arts Library at UT Austin, and in the Special Collections of the Newark Public Library.





Education
NYU School of Law
JD 
2009

The University of Texas at Austin
BA Plan II
2005





Public Commissions






















Residencies
2025
Tiny Gallery, Four Corners + Treat Place
Newark, New Jersey

2024
The CookBook LookBook Calendar Project
with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts

2022
Signal Ahead
East Coast Greenway

2021
City Feast
Newark Artist Collaboration







2025 
The Goldey House Drawing Through Community, Adirondack State Park
 





Select Group Shows
2026
Faculty Show
Granville Art Center
Garland, Texas

2025
Less Is Always More
Fl!ght Gallery
San Antonio, Texas

2025
Chateau Chateau
Aldredge House
Dallas, Texas

2025
Culture in Translation
Dallas College
Mexico City, Mexico

2024
La Familia Printshop Member Show
Norman Brown Gallery
Dallas, Texas

2024
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Newark Museum of Art
Newark, New Jersey

2023
Vignette Art Fair
Market Hall
Dallas, Texas

2023
Works on Paper
Special Collections
The Newark Public Library

2023
Postcards from the Edge
Visual AIDS, Ortuzar ProjectsNew York, New York

2023
Bloom!
Gallery Aferro Annual Gala
Newark, New Jersey

2022
Artful Healing
Newark Museum of Art

2022
Now Is Right Here
Gallery Aferro Annual Gala
Newark, New Jersey

2021
Build Your Own God (and Other Ideas for a Kinder World)
ArtShack, Brooklyn, New York

2021
Welcome Back to the World
Index Art Center
Newark, New Jersey

2020
Pushing the Envelope
Pulp Gallery
Mount Holyoke, MA






Publications
How to Play
Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art
2023

Clothes Up and Personal: Portraits of Four Fashion Designers
Newarker Magazine
2021

The Streets will be Empty this Good Friday
Newark Star Ledger
2020




Tangerine Fold,
intaglio on monoprint on mulberry paper,
15 x 18 inches,
2025
A to Z,
intaglio on monoprint on mulberry paper,
15 x 18 inches,
2025
Throughline,
intaglio on monoprint on Mohawk,
9 x 12 inches,
2024
Sherbet,
intaglio on monoprint on mulberry paper
8 1/2 x 12 inches,
2024
Prinkipo,
graphite on paper,
8 x 11 1/2 inches,
2025
Campus,
charcoal on newsprint,
18 x 24 inches,
2025
CookBook LookBook L(a)unch Event (installation view),
in collaboration with Antoinette Ellis-Williams, Monifa Kincaid, Larissa Velez-Jackson, Yvette Molina, Krystle Lemonias, Ayana Kareem, Meg Ellis, Natalie Duran, Bertha Miller, Marlene Ellid, and Lisa van Croft, dimensions variable
2024
Photo by Rachel Fawn Alban
CookBook LookBook Calendar Project,
risograph print and saddle-stitched,
8 1/2 x 11 x 1 inches,
2025
Signal Ahead,
aluminum, brass, enamel, rood, stainless steel,
18 x 1 x 24 inches,
2022
Recording,
aluminum, brass, enamel, rood, stainless steel,
18 x 1 x 24 inches, 
2025
Sujetalibros,
graphite and emroidery thread on hand-pulped paper clay,
13 x 2 inches (each)
2025
Sujetalibros (detail),
graphite and embroidery thread on hand-pulped paper clay
2025
Hibiscus Egg,
hand-pulped paper clay,
36 inches
2025
Steeped,
intaglio (side A) and monoprint (side B) on newsprint,
18 x 24 inches,
Photo by Kevin Todora
2025























© Melisa Gerecci Meyler 2026 
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