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Blake Press is excited to be reissuing a
fully illustrated edition of Melinda Camber Porter's novel Badlands this fall.
The New York Times called Badlands "A narrative with weighty sensuality that carries the reader forward in a kind of drunken, dreamlike state." Joyce Carol Oates called Badlands a "very strong, very intelligent and very intriguing novel.” Joan Didion said, “In Badlands, Melinda Camber Porter has focused her English intelligence on America and rendered it as an uneasy dream of sex and death and abandonment, a mirage with the power of possession.” Peter Matthiessen called Badlands "an achievement."
Badlands is a love story set in the awe-inspiring
landscape of the Wounded Knee Reservation in South Dakota. The narrator, a
young Englishwoman, discovers her own history of abuse as she plunges into
the poignant destinies of the Lakota people. She forms a passionate bond with
a Sioux girl and her charismatic father, Blackfoot. An intoxicating love
emerges between them that transcends politics and destiny.
Don't miss the Melinda Camber Porter Exhibition of Art, Books and Film at the University of South Dakota September 19 - October 16. All of Melinda Camber Porter's books are available at amazon.com |
Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Coming Soon: A New, Fully Illustrated Edition of Badlands
Saturday, July 30, 2016
Melinda in Converation with Michelangelo Antoniono
Michelangelo Antoniono (1912 - 2007) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story writer.
Melinda spoke with Michelangelo Antoniono in Rome in June 1977.
“Too many untold stories are weighing me down. The images of films I have not made continue to accumulate and obsess me.”
“I always create a catalogue of objects
around a character. I do not see him or her as the center of my film.
There is no hierarchy in my mind between a character’s context, clothes,
objects, and his personality or emotions. People think you have to tell
a story about someone rather than something. But the two are invisible
for people and so enmeshed in their surroundings.”
Monday, July 25, 2016
What is a Triptych?
A triptych (TRIP-tik; from the
Greek adjective τρίπτυχον "triptukhon" ["three-fold"]) is a work of
art (usually a panel painting) that is divided into three sections, or three carved panels hinged together that can be folded shut or displayed open.
Melinda's 27 Triptych oil paintings will be on display September 19 - October 16, 2016 at the John A Daly Exhibition Hall at the University of South Dakota.
Art dealer and gallery owner Walter Wikiser on Melinda's Triptych Series:
I first became aware of Melinda’s work in 2003 when I saw The Triptych Series at the Asia Society and Museum. I was amazed by her imagery and skill as a painter. I had never seen anything like her work in all my years as an art dealer. Her use of line and form is completely original, and although her work is figurative, it is also groundbreaking in its exploration of abstraction. Her work could be defined as “figurative abstraction,” because she pioneers new territory in both the abstract and figurative domains...The paintings I saw there stayed within me and seemed to find a permanent home in my memory. I realized that I couldn’t forget her paintings and I couldn’t define them. But I did realize these were completely new images representing a new dimension in painting.
MelindaCamberPorter.com
Art dealer and gallery owner Walter Wikiser on Melinda's Triptych Series:
I first became aware of Melinda’s work in 2003 when I saw The Triptych Series at the Asia Society and Museum. I was amazed by her imagery and skill as a painter. I had never seen anything like her work in all my years as an art dealer. Her use of line and form is completely original, and although her work is figurative, it is also groundbreaking in its exploration of abstraction. Her work could be defined as “figurative abstraction,” because she pioneers new territory in both the abstract and figurative domains...The paintings I saw there stayed within me and seemed to find a permanent home in my memory. I realized that I couldn’t forget her paintings and I couldn’t define them. But I did realize these were completely new images representing a new dimension in painting.
MelindaCamberPorter.com
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Luminous Bodies
The Luminous Bodies Series are works of celebration and mourning with 90 watercolors. These images explore the spiritual and cultural forces that continuously vie to originate and then heal the rift between the body and the soul.
For the first time all 90 Luminous Bodies watercolors will be presented in one venue: John A Day Gallery and Exhibition Hall at University of South Dakota from September 19 until October 14, 2016
MelindaCamberPorter.com
Monday, July 18, 2016
New Exhibit Coming in September
The Melinda Camber Porter Archive
is proud to announce the University of South Dakota's Melinda Camber
Porter Exhibition of Art, Books and Film, September 19 until October
14, 2016.
This USD Exhibition marks the first time all 90 Luminous Bodies watercolors and 27 Triptych oil paintings are presented in one venue.
Luminous Bodies Series are works of celebration and mourning with 90 watercolors. These images explore the spiritual and cultural forces that continuously vie to originate and then heal the rift between the body and the soul.
The Triptych Series are 27 large oils on canvas exploring the triptych form as both altarpiece and sculptural shape.
John A Day Gallery and Exhibition Hall
University of South Dakota
414 E. Clark Street, Vermillion, SD 57069
Contact: Michelle St. Vrain, 605-677-3177
This USD Exhibition marks the first time all 90 Luminous Bodies watercolors and 27 Triptych oil paintings are presented in one venue.
Luminous Bodies Series are works of celebration and mourning with 90 watercolors. These images explore the spiritual and cultural forces that continuously vie to originate and then heal the rift between the body and the soul.
The Triptych Series are 27 large oils on canvas exploring the triptych form as both altarpiece and sculptural shape.
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John A Day Gallery and Exhibition Hall
University of South Dakota
414 E. Clark Street, Vermillion, SD 57069
Contact: Michelle St. Vrain, 605-677-3177
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Born today: Monique Wittig
In 1976 Melinda Camber Porter sat with the French author and feminist theorist Monique Wittig to discuss her novel Le Corps Lesbien.
Monique Wittig, the small, dark-eyed Joan of Arc of the lesbian community, perched on her chair, and in a voice which gradually lost its defensive tone, said, “I could not bear to write anything obscene about a woman's body. Until now men have held the monopoly in describing a woman's body. But their vocabulary is tainted by their attitudes. I felt it was time for women to start writing about their own bodies. In Le Corps Lesbien I tried to use a fresh and untainted vocabulary.”
MelindaCamberPorter.com
Monique Wittig, the small, dark-eyed Joan of Arc of the lesbian community, perched on her chair, and in a voice which gradually lost its defensive tone, said, “I could not bear to write anything obscene about a woman's body. Until now men have held the monopoly in describing a woman's body. But their vocabulary is tainted by their attitudes. I felt it was time for women to start writing about their own bodies. In Le Corps Lesbien I tried to use a fresh and untainted vocabulary.”
Read the full article "The Lesbian Body Re-Examined," Excerpted from The Paris Post here
Friday, July 8, 2016
“Shiva and Parvati in the Forest,” from Melinda's Journey to Benares Series
This painting, “Shiva and Parvati in the Forest,” from Melinda's Journey to Benares Series, shows one
of the stages of the Tantric Ritual where the gods Shiva and Parvati merge into
one being. The rock opera culminates in this amazing Tantric Ritual, which is
spiritual, and erotic.
For more information on the Journey to Benares Series click here
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