MIXED MEDIA

Melba Northum

sculpture

Silly Dog to Bite the Lambwood, tape, ephemera, pins11” x 7” x 7”

Wasp and Whaletape, balsa boat, lead weight, foam, wood, 24” x 36”

No Way to Process Worry, tape, plastic, lenticular paper, flower, 4’x5’x4”

Confluence, tape, glass, address label drawing, 12”x12” each

Every Love Has Its Landscapeglass panels, tape, ephemera16” x 20” and 14” x 18”

Blue at Its Edges, beeswax ingot, rhinestone buttons, thread, paint, 14”x 21”x 2”

Falling Cloud, microcrystalline wax ingot, paraffin, rhinestone buttons, 14”x 21”x 2”

Oceans of the Unknownglass jars, toys, salt, glitter, wood, sparkle paint24” x 12” x 4”

Thick Moodacrylic rods, decal

Joyful, Powerful, Painful,clay, decals, flocking, wood,

magnets; 2”x4.5”x1/5”

Melba Northum, South of the Clouds

Karen Weinman Melba Northum Charles Coldewey

Plasticity, Cedar Valley College, 2014

What is the Shape of God’s Head?leather suitcase, concave glass,thorns, pink silk, salt stain, fugitive papers

The Number of Times a Feather is Burnishedglass magnifier, typewriter ribbon, steel, Plexiglas, light

24” x 60” x 10”

How to Break Sugar,silver, mirror, lead toy,

wood, ball chain;14’x8”

Fetch!

Loves Me, Loves Me Not

The Slender Word “I”wood, tape, wire, ephemera

3’x6” diameter

Atmospheric Structures

Whale and Swanclay, plastic, wood,

aluminum, steel16” x 24” x 7.5“

Slight Intrusionwood, decals

Upper Fathom of Water

84” x 36” x 36”

Architecture of Human Gracesteel, glass, salt, moon, polar bear, plastic flowers; 63” x 24” x 16”

Between Words is Silenceglass, paper, silver, lead, ribbon, wood

20” x 11” x 11”

Sunk in the Brutewood, plastic, antler,chalk, slate, paper

View with Longest Time of Day Longest Time of Day

Longest Time of Day

Longest Time of DayPyrex glass tubes, silver, lead flower frog, plastic ball, wood, rubber72” x 10” x 4” diameter

MIXED MEDIA

Melba Northum

2D Work

Melba Northum, Blue of Distance; Jilt

Simplify, SimplifySilver leaf, various ephemera

8” x 24”

Broken SugarSilver Leaf, various ephemera

8” x 24”

Origin of Birds This I Believed

Silly Goose Dreams of Cock