Benefit for Letha and Dan Rodman Melchior

About Letha and Dan Rodman Melchior:

Musicians and artists Dan and Letha Rodman Melchior are two of the most prolific and respected members of the avant-garde rock community. Dan’s recent record, The Backward Path, has had accolades poured over it since its release this fall; Letha’s artwork has long graced many of Dan’s covers, and her recent small-scale release, Moon Mountain, is a thumb in the eye of the cancer she’s been fighting for over two years, making what writer Sebastian Morris-White calls “the most artistically productive household in the country” all the more admirable.
But the struggles Letha and Dan face are real, and until the Affordable Health Care Act becomes fully implemented in 2014, Letha’s insurance is minimal enough that the generosity of the folks who contribute to the Letha Melchior Rodman Cancer Fund remains hugely important. To get Letha and Dan that much further toward the 2014 coverage, an international community of artists and fans has set the goal of funding her fight against cancer until Obamacare fully kicks in. To kick off, the campaign events in Barcelona, Chicago, Madrid, and New York have been announced, leading to Letha’s birthday January 25th, which will be celebrated with exuberance.

COLLAGE ON DEMAND at The Franklin:
Artist Melissa Oresky will spend Saturday, January 26th at The Franklin, with the kitchen serving as a temporary studio, and generating collages at a rapid clip using materials gathered from her studio. The public is invited to observe and participate, selecting from the artist’s library of painted papers and photographic images.

The artist’s labor is on display as she invites the public into the act of making work through exchange of ideas, and subtle or not-so-subtle suggestion. Each participant may keep a collage for a nominal donation of at least $20 to the Letha Melchior Rodman Cancer Fund.

COLLAGE ON DEMAND is the second in a pair of Chicago events to benefit the Letha Melchior Rodman Cancer Fund, following the January 25 concert at the Burlington, with Circuit des Yeux, Rabid Rabbit, These Wonderful Evils, and Nad Navillus.

More information about the events can be found at http://northern-spy.com/artist-community-sets-goal-of-funding-letha-rodman-melchiors-fight-against-cancer-until-2014-when-obamacare-kicks-in/

About Melissa Oresky:

Melissa Oresky’s 2012 solo exhibition, “Trail,” at the Hyde Park Art Center, was comprised of works on paper made over the past five years, as well as a collage-based project in stop-motion animation. Claudine Isé, in the Chicago Tribune, said, “Geometric shards of color, sometimes painted, other times cut from paper and arranged against filmy, jewel-toned grounds, are this artist’s specialty,” and called Oresky “one of Chicago’s finest” abstract painters.

Oresky’s paintings and collages have been shown at venues throughout the Chicago area, as well as U.S. and international venues, including the ongoing group exhibition “Angular Seduction,” at TSA in Brooklyn. In addition to “Trail,” recent solo exhibitions include “Tangled Grounds” at the Elmhurst Art Museum, in 2011. Melissa Oresky lives and works in Chicago and in Bloomington, Illinois, where she is Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at Illinois State University.

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