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Beacon Artist Melissa McGill's The Campi In Venice And Final Season Of Constellation

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Sarah LaDuke
Published June 22, 2017 at 11:12 AM EDT
The Campi by Melissa McGill installed at Studio Scatturin, a privately owned masterpiece by the great Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa. Sculptural sound box Campo Box (Santa Maria Formosa) shown here with corresponding archival pigment print, Campo Santa M
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The Campi by Melissa McGill installed at Studio Scatturin, a privately owned masterpiece by the great Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa. Sculptural sound box Campo Box (Santa Maria Formosa) shown here with corresponding archival pigment print, Campo Santa M
Luca Marella
Sculptural sound box Campo Box (San Polo) installed at Ca’ Tron- Università Iuav di Venezia on the piano nobile, filled this grand historical space with sounds of everyday Venetian life. Shown here with the artist, Melissa McGill.
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Sculptural sound box Campo Box (San Polo) installed at Ca’ Tron- Università Iuav di Venezia on the piano nobile, filled this grand historical space with sounds of everyday Venetian life. Shown here with the artist, Melissa McGill. ";s
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  Melissa McGillhas been exhibiting her artwork internationally since 1991 including one-person exhibitions at White Cube, London; Power House, Memphis; and CRG Gallery, New York. She is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design.

 

The Beacon-based artist has joined us previously on The Roundtable to discussPalmas, a work created for Manitoga in Garrison, New York and Constellation - a light and sculpture installation now in it’s last summer of exhibition on The Bannerman Castle ruin in The Hudson River.

 

Her most recent project is entitled The Campi - which was inspired by and installed during La Biennale di Venezia this year.

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Sarah LaDuke
Sarah has been a public radio producer for over a decade. She grew up in Saranac Lake, New York where she worked part-time at Pendragon Theatre all through high school and college. She graduated from UAlbany in 2006 with a BA in English and started at WAMC a few weeks later as a part-time board-op in the control room. Through a series of offered and seized opportunities she is now the Senior Contributing Producer of The Roundtable and Producer of The Book Show.
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