Melissa Meyer

 ( 1946 Births ) 

Melissa Meyer (born May 4, 1946) is an American painter. The Wall Street Journal has referred to her as a "lighthearted Abstract Expressionist".Esplund, Lance. “The Lighthearted Abstract Expressionist and Other New York Gallery Shows Worth Seeing.” The Wall Street Journal, February 21, 2009.

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Life and work Meyer received a fellowship at the American Academy in Rome in 1980,Annual Exhibition, American Academy in Rome, 21 May – 12 June 1981, Litografia BRUNI, Rome, Italy: 1981. two National Endowment for the Arts grants (1983, 1993), the National Academy 183rd Invitational Eric Isenburger Annual Award (2008), and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2009). In the late 1970s Meyer and Miriam Schapiro collaborated on a article entitled .Schapiro, Miriam and Meyer, Melissa. “Waste Not, Want Not: Femmage.” Heresies 1:4 (Winter 1977–1978).

In 1997 her sketchbooks were published in facsimile by the Mezzanine Gallery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Sketchbooks 1993-1995. Texts by Allan Gurganus and Robert Klitzman. Printed by Stamperia Valdonega, Verona, Italy. The Mezzanine Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY: 1997.

Melissa Meyer's paintings and works on paper are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, and The Jewish Museum,

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