Melody Tuttle

Biography
photograph of artist Melody Tuttle seated in her studio
With her lush and vibrant oil paintings, Melody Tuttle creates scenes of women performing intimate everyday rituals. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, the Brooklyn-based artist invites the viewer into the individual worlds of her subjects as they lounge in bed, gaze pensively towards the horizon, and dress for the day. Her homage to the beauty of solitude marks the idea of an absence - a subject in itself. With the women painted in visceral hues of red and orange, and vivant hills, picturesque sunsets, and celestial skies rolling through the background, the figures in Tuttle's paintings elicit a peaceful vibrancy in their seclusion. Her paintings have earned her solo shows in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. As her compositions unfold, Tuttle continually explores self-reliance and its relationship to the social constructions of female identity
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Works
  • nude woman crouched next to a just extinguished candle
    Death of a Star (with Spiderettes), 2024
  • painting of a woman with red skin and blonde hair with an arm draped over her head and bubbles around her
    Ephemera, Etc, 2024
  • back of the head of a woman with braided hair, a fire burning in the distance
    Memory of a Fire (after Wyeth), 2024
  • painting of a woman holding playing cards obscuring the bottom half of her face
    Play It As It Lays, 2024
  • woman in her underwear laying in bed next to a lit candle
    Sunday Spell, 2024
  • woman holding her hands in front of her face and a locket
    The Locket, 2024
  • painting of a woman holding a lit cigarette with a full wine glass in front of her
    The Merits of Vice, 2024
  • painting of a woman looking into a mirror with the viewer behind the woman
    What Does Your Soul Look Like?, 2024
  • painting of the back of a woman laying on a bed looking out through a window at the sunset
    Sick on Vacation, 2023
  • Melody Tuttle painting of red nude woman laying in flower field
    Wildflower, 2023
  • Melody Tuttle painting of nude woman in flower field with sunset
    Microdose in Mccarren, 2022
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