Melanie McClellan-Hartnett
Melanie McClellan-Hartnett is a Charleston-based interdisciplinary artist and poet whose work explores memory, healing, community, ecology, and the emotional landscapes of the coastal South. Working across painting, installation, poetry, and participatory public art, she creates immersive, community-centered experiences that invite reflection, dialogue, and connection. Her practice often weaves personal narrative with collective experience, examining resilience and transformation through both intimate and shared perspectives.
Rooted in the Lowcountry, McClellan-Hartnett develops projects that combine artmaking with service, collaboration, and environmental awareness. Her installations and public works have been presented through organizations and events including Piccolo Spoleto, Smithsonian Museum on Main Street, Beeple Studios, and McClellanville Arts Center. She is also the author of the poetry collections Goodbye, Oyster Girls and Some Bad Moon.
Her work is held in private collections throughout the United States and abroad.
A soft field of diffusion - concealing, reflecting, and leaving direction open.
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A study of boundaries - formed, perceived, and gradually undone.
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A brief study in openness and flow.
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A small shift gathers momentum- light spilling across textured planes, color refracting through former pressure points. Each mark carries the next.
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10×13 image on 11×14 Print
14×18 image on 16×20 Print
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10×12 and 20×24
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Form and silence drift through an interior without chronology- where memory and presence coexist.
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Stillness unfolds at the edge of perception - where light, shadow, and memory begin to dissolve into one.
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Light ans absence settle into a smaller interior. What remains - is structure - of apace, of memory - held in stillness.
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In a major breakdown, I saw a sun-bleached shell cast up and half-buried in radiant sand, The words moved through me in rhythm with the distant breakers: “I am a shell in the sand.” I felt emptied, discarded- life a s I knew it was gone. And yet the shore was beautiful, the ocean singing.
I realized that even a cast-off shell, lifted to the ear, carries the sound of the sea. I did not need to restore what was lost or understand what would come next. Even here- washed up, broken open- there was still a place, and still a song.
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Overall print size of 11×14 and 16×20.
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18×24 and 24×32
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A quiet reckoning with which no longer opens. Memory lingers as structure - present but no linger accessible.
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Opposing force meet and generate a center beyond themselves - a reflection on prayer ass act of love.
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Movement and Stillness held together- an understated reflection on renewal.
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Like a pearl forming, the full spectrum converges into luminous white - structured yet intuitive - moving through winding passages toward a faintly remembered horizon.
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Restraint and subtle texture trace memory, movement, and the quiet resolve found at still centers.
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There are no blank surfaces. What appears pristine already carries its history - traces of growth, matter and time - revealed through shifting layers. of contrast and light. This work set the trajectory for the entire collection.
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Overall print size of 11×14 and 16×20
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Painted as a Fathers Day Gift, with sailboats representing the artists husband and children. Luminous whites rest over a vivid rainbow ground. Currently installed at Wando High School.
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Overall print size of 11×14 and 16×20
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16×16 and 24×24
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