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Melody Lima

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  • Birthday Cake
  • Deer For Dinner
  • Different Abilities
  • Face
  • I Always Like
  • Music
  • Portrait
  • Rhino
  • Whale

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Melody Lima
Melody Lima

Melody Lima was born in San Francisco in 1961. She was the first studio artist to begin working at Creativity Explored when the studio opened in 1983.

Bold color, movement, and complex compositions are the mark of Lima’s artwork. Her subject matter is varied but she frequently draws and paints figures and animals, often using a combination of information taken from photographs and from her imagination. Lima likes to plan each composition before putting any mark on the page. She utilizes color by selecting pairings of similar colors to use in each area of a work.

Lima performs with The Dancing Tree, and July 2002 performed a dance and movement piece in a VSA exhibition in San Francisco.

Selected Exhibitions

  • 2009

  • “Science” Fiction, Creativity Explored
    • TV and Me, Creativity Explored

  • 2008

    • Tasty, Creativity Explored
    • Issues, Issues, Oakland
    • INsects INsectos, Creativity Explored
    • Quarter Century, Creativity Explored

  • 2007

    • Super Heroes Super Villains, Creativity Explored
    • Shadowshine, Creativity Explored
    • Naked, Creativity Explored

  • 2006

    • Delicious, Studio Gallery, San Francisco
    • SF Notables Portrait Auction, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco
    • The Beat Goes On, Creativity Explored
    • Music in the City, mural, Mission District, San Francisco

  • 2005

    • Wear to Go, Creativity Explored

  • 2004

    • Don’t Call Me Retard, SF Public Library
    • CBS Marketwatch Headquarters Exhibtion, San Francisco
    • Contextual, Creativity Explored
    • Psst, Hey! Be Mine?, Chatterbox Gallery, San Francisco

  • 2002

    • Seeing Behind the Face, Creativity Explored

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