“There is something romantic and eerie about places that seem somehow to have stopped in time. Visitors come and go and the places remain strangely unaffected. I want my paintings to have a sense of nostalgia and to seem like memories of places: timeless, idealistic ones.”
Melissa Kuntz was born in 1973 in Regina. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and a Master of Arts in Art History from Purchase College State University of New York, as well as a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She has exhibited her work in solo and group shows in Canada and the United States. Since 2002, Kuntz has written art reviews for Art in America magazine and the Pittsburgh City Paper. She is currently Associate Professor of Painting at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. |