Melody Tuttle

Bright Sides is an exhibition of paintings by Melody Tuttle that interrogates the female form. Tuttle depicts women isolated in routine and mundane scenes of everyday life, from lying in bed to getting dressed. While the scenes in which they occupy are tranquil and pensive, the colors vivid and visceral, as if to exist within their own world.

At beginning of autumn 2022, Tuttle had made several exciting and promising commitments with the intention of taking her work to a higher place. By the time the holidays had begun, she found herself grappling with the sudden and unexpected loss of her father. Bright Sides is as much an ode to grief as it is to finding solace in the quiet moments when no one else bears witness to your existence or routine. It’s about playing the hand you’re dealt and turning your soul outward, knowing that beauty exists in its rawness.

Through these paintings, the artist contemplates autonomy, self-reliance, and the female sense of self as it exists in the day-to-day.