Melisa Elif 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 The university of Texas at Austin, and 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
The CookBook LookBook Calendar Project, with support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts

City Feast, Audible, Innovation Cathedral, Newark, New Jersey

Signal Ahead, East Coast Greenway, Metuchen, NJ





 Group Shows
2025 (upcoming)
Less Is Always More
Fl!ght Gallery
San Antonio, Texas

2025
Chateau Chateau
Aldredge House
Dallas, Texas

2025
Culture in Translation
Dallas College Show
Mexico City, Mexico

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

2023    
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Newark Museum of Art
Newark, New Jersey

2023    
Vignette Art Fair
Market Hall
Dallas, Texas

2023    
Works on Paper
The Newark Public Library Special Collections

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

2023    Bloom! Gallery Aferro Annual Gala, Newark, NJ

2022    Artful Healing, Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ

2022    Now is Right Here, Gallery Aferro Annual Gala, Newark, NJ

2021    Build Your Own God and Other Ideas for a Kinder World, Artshack, Brooklyn, NY

2021    Creative Resilience, Newark Arts Festival, Newark, NJ

2021    Welcome Back to the World, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ

2020    Pushing the Envelope, Pulp Gallery, Mount Holyoke, MA 

2019    Green Zine Fair, Baxter Street at the Camera Club of New York, NY





Select Publications
2023    How to Play, Whitehot Magazine

2023    NEW EWR: Art at the Airport, Newarker Magazine

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

2020    The Streets will be Empty this Good Friday, The Star-Ledger