Joan Melnick (b 1942) is an internationally exhibited American visual artist and a professor of interior design at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Melnick studied Interior Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology and subsequently took up printmaking and painting as a course of study at SUNY New Paltz, where she garnered a Masters in Art. Her paintings have been the subject of two solo exhibitions at the Hansen Gallery in New York City, one solo exhibition at the Ponce Gallery in Mexico and included in groups shows at art venues such as the Jayne Baum Gallery and the Norwalk Parking Authority and Norwalk Arts Commission's Art in Parking Places. Melnick is well known for serigraph editions including "Swiss Road" and "Coral 2". Early in her career Melnick was awarded in the Second Intercollegiate exhibition of student art held at there alma mater of SUNY New Paltz where among the jurors were the sculptor Louise Nevelson and the author and Jewish Museum director Sam Hunter.
Curator Sooo-z Mastropietro in speaking with Leslie Lake of the Norwalk, Connecticut newspaper "The Hour" describes the selection from Melnick's work she has chosen to exhibit, relating that they are ..."vibrant coral structures through mixed media applications and compositions".
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