ABOUT

Melinda Katherine Frederick is a multimedia artist based in Southern Rhode Island. She employs elements of drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, sound, and light in her work. Frederick graduated from the New York School of Interior Design in 2006 and practiced that profession for many years while simultaneously engaging in her own art practice. She returned to school to immerse herself more fully in her art making, earning an AA in Studio Art from Pasadena City College in 2017 and a BFA in Ceramics from California State University Long Beach in 2021.

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Frederick is inspired by the use of clay accompanied by sound and light because together the three components create a connection between the physical and the ethereal. By using clay, she seeks to connect directly to the earth (from which it is derived) in her process, and in the final sculptural installations. By the strategic addition of lighting and sound, she is attempting to create a bridge to less tangible, yet equally familiar, elements of the human experience. As this technological age takes individuals further and further away from living life as organic, spiritual beings, she is compelled to create art that reminds the viewer of their inherent relationship to both.

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Frederick works out of her own studio at Peacedale Mill. She has taught drawing, ceramics, and mixed media practices to students of all ages at the Newport Art Museum, Jamestown Arts Center, and currently at the South County Art Association.