Book Review: "Mastering the Melon"

A Visual Overview of the Enchanting Work of Multi-media Artist Alix Lambert

Alix Lambert
MASTERING THE MELON
(Galeria Javier Lopez)

There are artists and then there are ARTISTS and the hair's breath difference between the two is often entirely subjective. In the case of multi-media phenom Alix Lambert, there's no denying that she is 100% unqualified ARTIST, a renaissance woman of many talents, some of which are on display in

Mastering The Melon. An attractive coffee table book with some intellectual and artistic heft, Mastering The Melon - beautifully created by Spanish publisher Galeria Javier Lopez - documents a few of Lambert's most thought-provoking and stimulating artistic works.

Alix Lambert was named as one of the "30 people under 30 who will change the culture in the next 30 years" by the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and her creative endeavors have won her scores of accolades. An accomplished photographer, performance artist, filmmaker and writer, Lambert is able to seemingly tackle any artistic avenue and achieve amazing results. Her documentary film, The Mark Of Cain, went behind prison walls to capture for posterity the dying art of hierarchal tattooing that was part of Russian criminal culture. The film was subsequently broadcast on the ABC Network's Nightline and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. Lambert's visual work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide for a decade and a half.