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Melissa Joseph
Casserole Culture 9 September - 17 October 2026Charles Moffett is pleased to present Casserole Culture, a solo exhibition of new works by New York-based multidisciplinary artist Melissa Joseph. This marks Joseph’s first solo exhibition organized by Charles Moffett since the artist officially joined the program in 2025. Working largely with found objects and needle felting on industrial felt — a process in which the artist binds the wool fibers together using a sharp, barbed needle — Joseph’s practice alludes to the labors of women and the history and legacy of craft, as well as her personal experiences as a biracial American and the cultural mashups of diasporic life. Bringing together 15 new works, ranging from small mixed-media sculptures to wall-spanning needle-felted paintings, Casserole Culture testifies to the hardwon resiliency, ingenuity, and tender familial care that molded the artist’s origins in America’s midwest. Born in Saint Marys, Pennsylvania to a mother from Pittsburgh with Irish roots and a father from Kerala, India, the artist’s work has long explored themes of family history and human connection. With her newest exhibition, Joseph excavates the power of place and the importance of regionalism to identity, particularly when the prevailing demographics or politics of a place might eschew the physical bodies living there.Read more -
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Melissa Joseph (b. 1980, Saint Marys, Pennsylvania; lives and works in New York, New York.; MFA Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2018; MAT in Art Education from the Rhode Island School of Design, 2008; AAS in Textile Surface Design from Fashion Institute of Technology, 2006 ; BA New York University Individualized Study 2003.) Joseph’s work has been shown at the Brooklyn Museum, Delaware Contemporary, Woodmere Art Museum, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA Arlington, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, List Gallery at Swarthmore College, ICA San Francisco, and at Rockefeller Center presented by Art Production Fund. She has participated in residencies including Artpace, Dieu Donné Workspace Residency, The Textile Arts Center, Fountainhead, the Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts, the Museum of Arts and Design and Greenwich House Pottery. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Ruby City, the RISD Museum and the ICA Miami. She is the recipient of the 2025 UOVO Prize by the Brooklyn Museum and a regular contributor to BOMB Magazine.