Video of curator Iris Jaffe describing Melissa Staiger’s work for Energy Field and the connection behind the brain-body connection when viewing art.
Organic Form No.7, 2024, acrylic on panel 24 x 72 inches
I’m deeply honored to share that my work has been selected for a year-long installation at @memorialsloankettering the MSK Brooklyn Infusion Center on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn.
Curated by Iris Jaffe chosen by a committee of MSK patient representatives and infusion center staff, the project will install at the end of April 2026.
Titled Energy Field, the installation will feature a group of paintings and centers around the question:
“What does healing look like to you?”
Conceived as a kind of solarium, a place of light, warmth, and renewal, the installation transforms the waiting space into an environment of perceptual restoration. Through layered acrylic painting, vibratory color relationships, and rhythmic botanical forms, the works explore color as a living force capable of awakening the senses and calming the mind.
The paintings will be installed in dialogue with natural sound environments by Moodsonic, creating a gentle multisensory field. Prisms will refract sunlight into shifting bands of color throughout the space. More details to come as the installation approaches.