Eco-Art exhibitions Summer 2026
Its been a busy year, already, we’ve had an open studio with CACTUS, and coming up in a few weeks, two Vernissages at two locations! Continue reading to find out more…
I’m happy to announce after a very successful CACTUS open studio event, I will have two vernissages this June in two locations. I’m excited to work with the two venues as it is a new connection for me, broadens my regional exposure, and continues my community contributions.
La Boulange is a gallery in Guidel that showcases twice a year, artists they select from the region. Crea’Paysage, is a public garden in Ploemuer, expanding their collection of permanent sculpture in the garden. Vernissage at La Boulange is the 12 of June, from 18h, CET, and the vernissage at Crea’Paysage will be the 19th of June from 18h, CET.
I recommend visiting both when you get a chance.
In the gallery,
I’ll be showing a continuation of my driftwood series, although I have significantly reworked several of smaller sculptures.
The series after reworking, represents more accurately my investigations of our post-truth moment, by manifesting real and fake patinas on digitally produced wood sculptures. As I’ve said before, because I use digital tools to produce the driftwood sculptures, less waste is produced compared to carving from solid blocks of wood, the basis of my Eco-Art argument for the works.
I’ll post pictures after the exhibitions open, so please bookmark this page for updates. For now, just some teasers…
Banner Image for Eco-Art Exhibition by John K. Melvin
Hommage à Trump, sculpture by John K. Melvin
For the garden exhibition at Crea’Paysage,
I’ll be showing a newly commissioned monumental work, titled, L’Espace Entre Nous.
In today’s world, we are confronted with realities and fantasies, and the resultant discordance blinds us to our commonalities. We don’t see the space between us as a link, we see it as a barrier. We don’t see it as a threshold to cross, we see it as a difference to exclaim. Our path to a better future is to exit our individual perspectives and embrace the reality of our shared commonality.
The work is composed of a dozen 5m tall slabs of Sequoia and Cypress, and invites the viewer to experience their blindness to other perspectives. The viewer then discovers the solution is to step out of their individual perspective and engage in the collective.
The work relates to the Ec0-Art conversation by highlighting rare woods, harvested from a former client who didn’t want the trees anymore, and after years of seasoning in the backlot of Crea’Paysage, I was offered the opportunity to create something.
Images to come after the exhibition opens, but here are some teasers, as well as another sculpture I’ll be temporarily showing at the garden, a garden sized version of EvoCrawler, in rusted steel. Steel may not be considered an Ec0-Art material, however, imagine building our modern world without it. Advances are being made to produce steel with less of a carbon footprint, more needs to be done. Check out this World Economic Forum video on Green Hydrogen produced Steel.
Banner Publicity, Alter et Idem, John K. Melvin
Alter et Idem,
the show title, translates as, another the same.
Or in my meaning, an exploration of otherness.
thanks for the support.
Here’s some press we’ve received.
Press Clipping, Ouest-France, 30.04.2026, John K. Melvin
Street Publicity, Guidel, FRANCE June 2026, John K. Melvin
Press Clipping, Ouest-France 30/04/2026, John K. Melvin
