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Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
Charleston, SC

Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
College of Charleston School of the Arts
The Marion and Wayland H. Cato Jr. Center for the Arts
161 Calhoun St, 1st floor
Charleston, South Carolina 29401
(843) 953-HICA (4422)
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Contact:
Lizz Biswell at BiswellL@cofc.edu
Bryan Granger at GrangerBW@cofc.edu


www.halsey.cofc.edu

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Exhibitions

Demond Melancon: AS ANY MEANS ARE NECESSARY


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Demond Melancon: AS ANY MEANS ARE NECESSARY
Through December 7, 2024

The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art is proud to announce the first solo museum exhibition of innovative artist Demond Melancon.

Demond Melancon (b. 1978) works solely with a needle and thread to sew glass beads onto canvas. He began this practice in 1992 when he first became part of a more than 200-year-old culture known as the Black Masking Culture of New Orleans. Big Chief Demond Melancon is well known for creating massive Suits as a Black Masker. His Suits are sculptural forms based on the size of his body which are composed of intricate, hand-sewn beadwork revealing a collective visual narrative. In 2017, Melancon pioneered an emerging contemporary art practice using the same beading techniques he’s been refining over the past 30 years in the Black Masking Culture.
As Any Means Are Necessary will debut a host of new work, including a completely new type of art object in Melancon’s practice.

Demond Melancon’s website is demondmelancon.com

Demond Melancon (b. 1978) works solely with a needle and thread to sew glass beads onto canvas. He began this practice in 1992 when he first became part of a more than 200-year-old culture known as the Black Masking Culture of New Orleans. Big Chief Demond Melancon is well known for creating massive Suits as a Black Masker. His Suits are sculptural forms based on the size of his body which are composed of intricate, hand-sewn beadwork revealing a collective visual narrative. In 2017, Melancon pioneered an emerging contemporary art practice using the same beading techniques he’s been refining over the past three decades in the Black Masking Culture.

Melancon’s work has been included in exhibitions at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, Brooklyn, NY; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI; Haus der Welt der Kulturen, Berlin; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; and the Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA. His work is included in the collections of the International African American Museum, Toledo Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, and the LSU Museum of Art. In 2023, Demond Melancon was selected as a Joan Mitchell Fellow by the Joan Mitchell Foundation.

As a self-taught artist, Melancon has been heavily influenced by the teachings of Kerry James Marshall. Often reflecting untold stories from bygone pasts, many of his works honor Black subjects historically excluded from the artistic canon while confronting stereotypical representations of Black identity. The potency of Melancon’s work is reinforced by his deep interest in exploring the possibilities of visual storytelling and redefining the traditions of portraiture. Demond Melancon is one of the few artists to pioneer the use of glass beads as an accepted medium in the larger contemporary arts sector. By reconsidering predominant narratives, Melancon deliberately repositions historically overlooked subjects and reimagines institutional portrayal of the Black subject.

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