Since the start of video as a medium in my art in 2007, my work has involved the exploration of behaviors through repetition. I began recording myself doing tasks for excessive amounts of time, to the point of obsession. I would spend hours picking grass or washing my hands, documenting the process as I tried to capture the silent hypnosis that is attached to such behaviors. I am interested in time, but not time measured through artificial means, such as calendars, clocks and schedules, but how we internally keep time and get lost in repetition. In my work, I deconstruct the art making process, and like to refer to my videos as psychological studies. My work has since evolved to capture tasks, usually the manipulation of a material, and looping the video. Preferably, all my videos should be viewed independently of themselves and other video artists work, running on a “never-ending” loop. At times, the videos are paired with objects, usually an object that was in the video, as installations. Sound is an element that is important to me, weather a piece has sound or not, the absence of sound can be louder than the actual sound; generating more thoughts as we try to piece together and understand a work of art. Barbara Ann Levy or The Barbara Ann Levy Gallery had this to say about an installation at Showtell at Hotel Biba in 2009:
“Melissa Marrero's videotape was one of the strongest pieces of art in the show and the room's decor seemed simply a foil for it. I would have preferred to come into a stark white room to view it. It is intimate and the various arrangements of real oranges in tumbling piles in the room split the focus of the work. In it she stitches together pieces of an orange peel. It is a psychological study of the art making process and its subject, phenomena. It is reminiscent of some of Andy Warhol videos, Joseph Boyce sculpture and Vito Acconci conceptual artwork.” http://wpbartcritic.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html
CV
Born in Miami, FL in 1981
Currently lives and works in Boca Raton, FL
Education
FloridaAtlanticUniversityBoca Raton, FL 2004-2009
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art, Sculpture
Bachelor of Art, Art History
Graduated with Honors
From August 07-January 08, I studies abroad in Paris, France
Broward Community College Coconut Creek, FL 1998-2004
Associates of Arts, Arts
Graduated with Honors
Exhibition Experience
2010
59th Annual All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition, Boca RatonMuseum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
