MELINDA BORYSEVICZ
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Melinda Borysevicz

Melinda Borysevicz is an Italian-American figurative artist currently living and working in rural southern Italy.  Her narrative portrait, figure and landscape paintings spring directly from her personal experience of having re-discovered her ancestral home and often reflect a more universal sense of longing and searching. The characters in her work are often either in motion or caught in an implied desire to move/escape, no longer completely satisfied to oblige the invention of boundaries or borders, be they physical, emotional or spiritual.  

Borysevicz received a BFA in Painting from Savannah College of Art and Design (Savannah, GA) magna cum laude. In 2012 she founded the Studio School in Savannah GA, a small art school dedicated to classical painting techniques (now in new hands) and continues to teach painting workshops both in the States and abroad.  Her work was recently 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 received a Certificate of Excellence in the Portrait Society of America's International Competition 2013, has been received awards in the Portrait Society of America's Members Competition and has been a finalist in ARC Salon, She has 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.

EDUCATION
2011          BFA in Painting, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, magna cum laude
                
EXHIBITIONS
2025          Totally Open, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 
2024           MADONNE, Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate, Padula SA, Italy
                    
Look!, The Ellis Gallery of Arts Southeast, Savannah, GA
2021           Women Painting, Museo MEAM, Barcelona, Spain
2020           Creator and Muse, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL (moved online)
2019           Figurativas 19, Museo MEAM, Barcelona, Spain
                    Painting the Figure Now II, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau, WI
                    Painting Today, Museo MEAM, Barcelona, Spain
                    Genesis, Dab Art, Ventura CA
                     Adorn Me, PoetsArtists (online)
2017           ModPortrait Exhibition, Museo MEAM, Barcelona, Spain
                    ModPortrait Exhibition, Museo Pablo Serrano, Zaragoza, Spain
                    Sight Unseen, Abend Gallery, Denver CO
                    Medusa: Riflessioni, Palazzo Marrone, Monte San Giacomo, Italy
                    10th Anniversary Exhibition, Kobo Gallery; Savannah, GA
2016           Women Painting Women, RJD Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
                     Luci in Avalon, Tempio di Pomona, Salerno, Italy
2015           Obliqua, Castello Macchiarolli, Teggiano, SA, Italy                        
2014           Women Painting Women, RJD Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
                    Into That Darkness Peering, Edgar Allan Poe Museum, Richmond VA
                    Southern Discomfort 2: Art Inspired by Flannery O’Connor, ThincArt, Savannah GA
2013           Winter Show, Whitney Gallery, Savannah GA
                    Women Painting Women, RJD Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
                     About Face, S.P.A.C.E., City of Savannah Cultural Affairs Dept., Savannah GA
2012           TAPPED, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
                    Annual Spring Exhibition, Kobo Gallery; Savannah, GA
                    Southern Discomfort: Art Inspired by Flannery O’Connor, 1704Lincoln, Savannah, GA
                    Still Life and Memory, (solo show) S.P.A.C.E., City of Savannah Cultural Affairs Dept.; GA
2011           Small Works, Gutstien Gallery, Savannah GA
                    Ossabaw Works on Paper and Wood, Atwell’s Art, Savannah GA
                    Transition 7, Little Beasts Gallery, Savannah GA
2010           Salon International 2010, Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art; San Antonio TX
 
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021- present       Director, Art Center Padula, Padula, SA Italy

2023                        Featured Artist Workshop: The Costumed Figure, Telfair Museum, Savannah GA
2021                        Plein air Painting, The Mountain Retreat and Learning Center, Highlands, NC

2019                         Basic Painting Workshop, Guest Artist The Studio School, Savannah GA
                                  Clothed Figure Painting Workshop, Guest Artist The Studio School, Savannah GA
2018                         Portrait Painting Workshop, Guest Artist The Studio School, Savannah GA

2012- Dec. 2015     Founder & Director of The Studio School, Savannah, GA
2018                          Portrait Painting Workshop, Guest Artist The Studio School, Savannah GA

 
AWARDS/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS
2023          Alumni Mentor, Foundations (workshops, lecture, classroom visits), SCAD, Savannah, GA
2021          Artist-in-Residence, Alumni Atelier, SCAD Lacoste France          

                   Artist-in-Residence, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos NM
2019           Alumni Mentor (workshops, lecture, studio visits), SCAD, Savannah, GA
2018           Artist-in-Residence, Stiwdio Maelor, Corris, Wales
                    Finalist, Portrait Society of America Members Only Competition
2017           Finalist, Portrait Society of America Members Only Competition
2016           Finalist, Portrait Society of America Members Only Competition
2014           3rd Honorable Mention, Portrait Society of America Members Only Competition
                     Finalist, Art Renewal Center’s International 2013/14 ARC Salon
2013           Artist-in-Residence, Hambidge Center for the Arts, Rabun Gap GA
                    Certificate of Excellence, Portrait Society of America International Competition
2010           Finalist, Art Renewal Center’s International 2009/2010 ARC Salon
 
COLLECTIONS
Savannah College of Art and Design Permanent Collection
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019             INPA 8 (International Painting Annual), Manifest Press, Cincinnati OH
2017             The Portrait Issue, PoetsArtists Magazine, April                  
2015             Bevin Valentine Jalbert, "Transition & Transformation", Paprika Southern, 
                      http://issuu.com/paprikasouthern/docs/july15/45?e=7619734/14014092
2014             Jeffrey Carlson, “Contemporary Painters Get Gloomy With Edgar Allen Poe”, Fine Art 
                      Connoisseur,  http://www.fineartconnoisseur.com/pages/18826073.php     
 
2013             Bill Dawers, “Unplugged: Group Show Explores Contemporary Portraiture, The Savannah Morning News, July 17                     
                       David Gignilliat,  “Seven Artists You Need to Know”, South Magazine, February/March
                     
​                        Allison Malafronte, “Currently on View: About Face”, Fine Art Connoisseur,
                       http://www.fineartconnoisseur.com/Currently-on-View-About-Face-/16785058
2012             Allison Hersh, “Objects, Memory Interact…”, The Savannah Morning News, July 14

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