Home Views | Online Artist Conversations – Judy Iranyi, Charles Mintz, Roberta Neidigh and Melanie Walker

We are pleased to bring four visual voices from our exhibition Home Views together in conversation about their vision of home.

Join us on online in the Griffin Zoom Room November 16th at 7pm with Judy Iranyi, Charles Mintz, Roberta Neidigh and Melanie Walker.

This event is FREE to Griffin Museum members. $10 for Non Members. Interested in Membership and its benefits? See more about what the Griffin offers on our Griffin Members Community.

For more about the artists –

Judy Iranyi –

© Judi Iranyi

Judi Iranyi was born in Hungary (1943). After World War II, she and her family lived in a displaced persons camp in Germany for a few years before emigrating to Venezuela, where she lived until she finished high  school. She has also lived in Trinidad, Barbados, Germany, and Okinawa before moving to San Francisco in 1971.

Ms. Iranyi became interested in photography in the sixties. She earned a BA degree in Art/Photography from San Francisco State University. Later she received an MA degree in Visual Design from U.C. Berkeley; completed a master‘s level museum studies program at John F. Kennedy University; and an MSW Degree in Social Work at San Francisco State University.Ms. Iranyi has worked as a freelance photographer taking environmental portraits. She was also a staff photographer at the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley and worked at the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums.

She also worked as a California Licensed Clinical Social Worker until her retirement.After retirement, Ms Iranyi dedicated her time to photography. She has been published; exhibited in group and solo shows across the United States and Europe; and self-published two books: “Arg-e-Bam,” about the ancient citadel in Iran, and “Remembering Michael,” a tribute to her son, who died of AIDS in 1984.Her work includes portraits, travel photography, documentary, and street photography. Recently she has shifted her emphasis to botanicals and still life photography.Three of her life passions are traveling, literature, and photography, which have broadened her view of the world.

Charles Mintz –

© Charles Mintz, “Robert, 2013”

Photography is Chuck’s third career the result of a passion acquired in Maine many years ago. He has degrees in Electrical Engineering from Purdue and Cleveland State University and has done course work in photography at Maine Media Workshop, Parsons, ICP and Cuyahoga Community College. Life trustee of Jewish Family of Cleveland, board of the Friends of Photography at the Cleveland Museum of Art and advisory boards of the Cleveland Print Room and the Artists Archive of the Western Reserve. Chuck is a recipient of the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards for 2015 and 2017.
Since starting this full time, his work has become intensely personal – often involving portraiture. This can be seen in The Album Project, Precious Objects, Costumes, Lustron Stories and, and The Hardware Store.

Roberta Neidigh –

© Roberta Neidigh

Roberta Neidigh grew up on a farm in the rural Midwest, where land seemed to have no bounds. The farmhouse had been inhabited by generations of Roberta’s ancestors, and her time there marked the beginning of her fascination with people, their histories, and their landscapes. She earned a BFA in Textile Design at Indiana University and subsequently settled with her husband in northern California, where she worked as an exhibiting textile artist for ten years. Photographing her first child rekindled a love for the  darkroom, and Roberta began making portraits, focusing on connections between people and their environments. After raising her family, Roberta returned to the landscape in 2010. She has since shown her work in California, New York, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Washington, Illinois and Massachusetts and currently explores the ways in which we cultivate our own public and private spaces.

Melanie Walker –

© Melanie Walker

Melanie Walker has been a practicing artist for over 50 years. Her expertise is in the area of alternative photographic processes, digital and mixed media as well as large scale photographic installations and more recently, public art. She attended San Francisco State University for a Bachelor’s degree in Art and Florida State University for an MFA. She has received a number of awards including an NEA Visual Arts Fellowship, Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship and an Aaron Siskind Award. She taught at a number of universities
including San Francisco State University, SUNY Albany, Alfred University and the University of Kentucky, Lexington. She currently teaches in the Media Arts Area at the University of Colorado Boulder. Over the last several years her work has gone in two primary directions involving public art and further pursuits of a mixed media approach to photography. She has been collaborating on public art with artist/sculptor George Peters and together they have been the recipient of numerous public art commissions in a number of national and
international locations, including Colorado, Arizona, London, Florida, Alaska, and California.