SURREALISTIC FANTASY IN TWO PARTS

Cannon Coffee Presents Melanie Hickerson & Luna Davis Surrealistic Fantasy in Two Parts Sept 29, 2024 – Feb 1, 2025 • Reception: Sat, Oct 12, 2024, 5-7pm Art 84 presents two exceptional artists in its Cannon Coffee art space: Melanie Hickerson, whose career in NYC and Austin spans decades and Luna Davis, an accomplished Austin artist early in her career. Both address the experience of life with its sweetness and trauma, Hickerson through painting metaphors in acrylic on canvas and Davis through mixed media ranging across acrylic sheeting, CRT TVs, video, stain glass, and sculpture. Although their media differ–one traditional, one new–their work shares a dreamlike quality and remembrance for things past, present, and future. Thus, our title Surrealistic Fantasy in Two Parts. Both artists have shown with Art 84 before, originally as teacher and protégé, and we are delighted to have them back together. Melanie Hickerson is an experienced artist who has art in the permanent collection of The University of Texas at San Antonio plus in many private collections around the world. She spent many years in Rome, New York City, and Austin as a working artist and teacher. Melanie’s paintings are well-constructed objects of heart, intellect, and skill and are metaphors in paint for breath and life. She explains “I’m painting my homage to miracles. There are these sweet bits to dilute the ferocity in life. Mother Earth, Mother Nature.” https://www.melaniehickerson.com/ Luna Davis is an interdisciplinary artist who works primarily in non-traditional media. In her words, “I create various nostalgic domestic installations and mixed-media pieces that are altered through the lens of not only my own personal experiences, but other traumatic, emotional, and heavy burdens that we as humans carry with us.” She also explores digital identity in the age of the internet. https://www.lunadavis.com/