This document provides descriptions of various sculptures, installations, and 2D works by artist Melba Northum. The works utilize a wide variety of materials like wood, tape, glass, paper, fabric, and found objects. Some of the larger installations include "Upper Fathom of Water" which is 84 inches tall, and "View with Longest Time of Day" which is 72 inches tall. The document also includes brief biographies of the artist and information about an exhibition of Northum's works titled "Plasticity" shown at Cedar Valley College in 2014.

1. MIXED MEDIA
Melba Northum
sculpture

2. Silly Dog to Bite the Lamb
wood, tape, ephemera, pins
11” x 7” x 7”

3. Wasp and Whale
tape, balsa boat, lead weight, foam, wood, 24” x 36”

4. No Way to Process Worry, tape, plastic, lenticular paper, flower, 4’x5’x4”

5. Confluence, tape, glass, address label drawing, 12”x12” each

6. Every Love Has Its Landscape
glass panels, tape, ephemera
16” x 20” and 14” x 18”

7. Blue at Its Edges, beeswax ingot, rhinestone buttons, thread, paint, 14”x 21”x 2”

8. Falling Cloud, microcrystalline wax ingot, paraffin, rhinestone buttons, 14”x 21”x 2”

9. Oceans of the Unknown
glass jars, toys, salt, glitter, wood,
sparkle paint
24” x 12” x 4”

10. Thick Mood
acrylic rods, decal

11. Joyful, Powerful, Painful,
clay, decals, flocking, wood,
magnets; 2”x4.5”x1/5”

12. Melba Northum, South of the Clouds

13. Karen Weinman Melba Northum Charles Coldewey
Plasticity, Cedar Valley College, 2014

14. What is the Shape of
God’s Head?
leather suitcase, concave glass,
thorns, pink silk, salt stain,
fugitive papers

15. The Number of Times a Feather is Burnished
glass magnifier, typewriter ribbon, steel, Plexiglas, light
24” x 60” x 10”

16. How to Break Sugar,
silver, mirror, lead toy,
wood, ball chain;
14’x8”

17. Fetch!

18. Loves Me, Loves Me Not

19. The Slender Word “I”
wood, tape, wire, ephemera
3’x6” diameter
Atmospheric Structures

20. Whale and Swan
clay, plastic, wood,
aluminum, steel
16” x 24” x 7.5“

21. Slight Intrusion
wood, decals

22. Upper Fathom of
Water
84” x 36” x 36”

23. Architecture of Human Grace
steel, glass, salt, moon, polar bear,
plastic flowers; 63” x 24” x 16”

24. Between Words is Silence
glass, paper, silver, lead, ribbon, wood
20” x 11” x 11”

25. Sunk in the Brute
wood, plastic, antler,
chalk, slate, paper

26. View with Longest
Time of Day Longest Time of Day

27. Longest Time of Day

28. Longest Time of Day
Pyrex glass tubes, silver,
lead flower frog, plastic ball,
wood, rubber
72” x 10” x 4” diameter

29. MIXED MEDIA
Melba Northum
2D Work

30. Melba Northum, Blue of Distance; Jilt

31. Simplify, Simplify
Silver leaf, various ephemera
8” x 24”

32. Broken Sugar
Silver Leaf, various ephemera
8” x 24”

33. Origin of Birds This I Believed

34. Silly Goose
Dreams of
Cock