Melody Tuttle

UTA Artist Space is pleased to present Bright Sides, an Artist Project of paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Melody Tuttle that interrogates the female form. Tuttle depicts women isolated in routine and mundane scenes of everyday life, from lying in bed to getting dressed. While the scenes in which they occupy are tranquil and pensive, the colors vivid and visceral, as if to exist within their own world. Their identities concealed by positioning and swaths of hair, these figures serve as expressive symbols rather than depictions of actual women; a female archetype in lieu of a portrait. Through these paintings, the artist contemplates autonomy, self-reliance, and the female sense of self as it exists in the day-to-day.

Melody Tuttle (b. 1985 Des Moines, Iowa) is a Brooklyn-based figurative painter who works primarily with oils on canvas. She graduated with a BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2011. After graduation, she spent several years in Providence and Chicago before eventually settling in New York to pursue painting full time. Tuttle has shown her paintings with Hashimoto Contemporary and Thierry Goldberg and has a forthcoming solo show in New York with Hyacinth Gallery.