Melissa Meyer Prints and Multiples
American, b. 1947
Melissa Meyer is an American abstract painter and printmaker who is associated with the third generation of Abstract Expressionists. Her energetic, colorful compositions express emotion and the transitory essence of reality. She lives and works in New York.
Melissa Meyer has created a diverse oeuvre that includes oil paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints and large-scale public commissions. Her work is strongly influenced by color and line. Her brushstrokes and patterns possess a glyph-like quality, conveying a vibrant and deeply personal aesthetic language. Meyer is skilled in a range of different printing techniques, including lithography, etching, monotype, silkscreen, and spit bite aquatint.
The work Meyer makes begins and ends with looking. Her inspiration could be spurred by seeing a color or a mark or a gesture, sometimes in a dream, sometimes in another one of her works.She works instinctively, and follows her personal intuition in the studio. In addition to her aesthetic influences Meyer is also inspired by dance, architectural forms, letterforms and handwriting, classic jazz and classic blues, film noir, and a multitude of specific characters, songs and places, which often find their way into her titles and concepts.
Melissa Meyer has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, as well as internationally. She has completed public commissions around the world, including in Kyrgyzstan, Shanghai, Tokyo, Miami and Queens.
Work by Meyer is included in the permanent collections of some of the most prestigious institutions in the world, including the New York MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, The Jewish Museum in New York, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.(Biography provided by IdeelArt)
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Artist: Melissa Meyer
Love Me Tender
By Melissa Meyer
Located in New York, NY
Melissa Meyer
Love Me Tender, 2003
Color etching on wove paper
Pencil signed and numbered from the edition of 30 on the front
27 inches × 25 inches
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Evergreen Lane (Abstract print)
By Melissa Meyer
Located in London, GB
Evergreen Lane (Abstract print)
Etching - Unframed.
This print is last in edition.
This etching refers to a Steamboat Springs, Colorado street. It...
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Evergreen Lane (Abstract print)
By Melissa Meyer
Located in London, GB
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Small Abstract (Abstract print)
By Melissa Meyer
Located in London, GB
Small Abstract (Abstract print)
Silkscreen - Unframed
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Wilde I
By Melissa Meyer
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The "Wilde" series comprises 9 prints with a common language of gesture. Different color worlds emerge from each prints.
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Love Me Tender (Abstract print)
By Melissa Meyer
Located in London, GB
Love Me Tender (Abstract print)
Etching - Unframed.
Printed in an edition of 30 by Sue Oehme for Riverhouse Editions; this print is 3/30.
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Wilde VI
By Melissa Meyer
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wilde VI, 1998
Lithograph
38 × 28 in
96.5 × 71.1 cm
Melissa Meyer's bold gestures create a field of color and lyrical form.
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Wilde II
By Melissa Meyer
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Melissa Meyer's "Wilde" series employs gesture and color in a range of cadences and tempi.
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Wilde IV
By Melissa Meyer
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Melissa Meyer's calligraphic gestures form a screen in front of subtle wash colors.
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Small Abstract (Abstract print)
By Melissa Meyer
Located in London, GB
Small Abstract (Abstract print)
Silkscreen - Unframed
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Wilde VII
By Melissa Meyer
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This gestural print combines the artist's free hand with washes and linear elements to create an activated field.
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Wilde III
By Melissa Meyer
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Melissa Meyer's bold gestural abstraction "Wilde III" lithograph forms a pair with "Wilde I"
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Love Me Tender (Abstract print)
By Melissa Meyer
Located in London, GB
Love Me Tender (Abstract print)
Etching - Unframed.
Printed in an edition of 30 by Sue Oehme for Riverhouse Editions; this print is 3/30.
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Wilde V
By Melissa Meyer
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Melissa Meyer's gestural abstractions combine a rigorous drawing style with a great color sense.
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Wilde IX
By Melissa Meyer
Located in Brooklyn, NY
With the other 8 prints from the Wilde series, this print forms a group that explores gestural field space.
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Wilde X
By Melissa Meyer
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Love Me Tender (Abstract print)
By Melissa Meyer
Located in London, GB
Etching - Unframed.
Printed in an edition of 30 by Sue Oehme for Riverhouse Editions; this print is 3/30.
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American Abstract Expressionist Artist Melissa Meyer Aquatint Etching
By Melissa Meyer
Located in Surfside, FL
Melissa Meyer (American, b. 1946)
1984-1987, aquatint etching in black on wove paper, hand signed print, dated, and numbered from small edition of 10.
Unframed. size: 9.75'' x 6'', 25 x 15 cm (plate); 27'' x 19.5'', 69 x 50 cm (sheet).
Melissa Meyer (born May 4, 1946) is an American artist and painter. The Wall Street Journal has referred to her as a "lighthearted Abstract Expressionist". She works in various formats, large abstract paintings, watercolors, prints, monotype, monoprint and drawings made up of fields of gestures.
Selected solo shows: Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY; List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA; New York Studio School, New York, NY; Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH. Selected Group shows: “The Maslow Collection: Context and Content”, The Maslow Study Gallery for Contemporary Art, Scranton, PA; “Summer Reverie Invitational,” William Siegel Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.; "One of a Kind; Monoprints, Monotypes", The Gallery, Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown, NY.
Awards and Grants: two National Endowment for the Arts grants, two New York Foundation for the Arts grants , Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, Yaddo Residency Grants.
She is known for her calligraphic abstract paintings. Born on May 4, 1946 in Bronx, NY, she received both her BS and MA from New York University, where she came under the influence of Helen Frankenthaler. With her first solo exhibition taking place in 1976, over the decades that followed her paintings have been written about by a number of artists, including Stephen Westfall...
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American Abstract Expressionist Artist Melissa Meyer Aquatint Etching
By Melissa Meyer
Located in Surfside, FL
Melissa Meyer (American, b. 1946)
1984-1987, aquatint etching in black on wove paper, hand signed print, dated, and numbered from small edition of 10.
Unframed. size: 9.75'' x 6'', 25 x 15 cm (plate); 27'' x 19.5'', 69 x 50 cm (sheet).
Melissa Meyer (born May 4, 1946) is an American artist and painter. The Wall Street Journal has referred to her as a "lighthearted Abstract Expressionist". She works in various formats, large abstract paintings, watercolors, prints, monotype, monoprint and drawings made up of fields of gestures.
Selected solo shows: Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY; List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA; New York Studio School, New York, NY; Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH. Selected Group shows: “The Maslow Collection: Context and Content”, The Maslow Study Gallery for Contemporary Art, Scranton, PA; “Summer Reverie Invitational,” William Siegel Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.; "One of a Kind; Monoprints, Monotypes", The Gallery, Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown, NY.
Awards and Grants: two National Endowment for the Arts grants, two New York Foundation for the Arts grants , Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, Yaddo Residency Grants.
She is known for her calligraphic abstract paintings. Born on May 4, 1946 in Bronx, NY, she received both her BS and MA from New York University, where she came under the influence of Helen Frankenthaler. With her first solo exhibition taking place in 1976, over the decades that followed her paintings have been written about by a number of artists, including Stephen Westfall...
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American Abstract Expressionist Artist Melissa Meyer Aquatint Etching
By Melissa Meyer
Located in Surfside, FL
Melissa Meyer (American, b. 1946)
1984-1987, aquatint etching in black on wove paper, hand signed print, dated, and numbered from small edition of 10.
Unframed. size: 9.75'' x 6'',...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Melissa Meyer Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Aquatint
American Abstract Expressionist Artist Melissa Meyer Aquatint Etching
By Melissa Meyer
Located in Surfside, FL
Melissa Meyer (American, b. 1946)
1984-1987, aquatint etching in black on wove paper, hand signed print, dated, and numbered from small edition of 10.
Unframed. size: 9.75'' x 6'', 25 x 15 cm (plate); 27'' x 19.5'', 69 x 50 cm (sheet).
Melissa Meyer (born May 4, 1946) is an American artist and painter. The Wall Street Journal has referred to her as a "lighthearted Abstract Expressionist". She works in various formats, large abstract paintings, watercolors, prints, monotype, monoprint and drawings made up of fields of gestures.
Selected solo shows: Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY; List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA; New York Studio School, New York, NY; Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH. Selected Group shows: “The Maslow Collection: Context and Content”, The Maslow Study Gallery for Contemporary Art, Scranton, PA; “Summer Reverie Invitational,” William Siegel Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.; "One of a Kind; Monoprints, Monotypes", The Gallery, Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown, NY.
Awards and Grants: two National Endowment for the Arts grants, two New York Foundation for the Arts grants , Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, Yaddo Residency Grants.
She is known for her calligraphic abstract paintings. Born on May 4, 1946 in Bronx, NY, she received both her BS and MA from New York University, where she came under the influence of Helen Frankenthaler. With her first solo exhibition taking place in 1976, over the decades that followed her paintings have been written about by a number of artists, including Stephen Westfall...
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Female American Abstract Expressionist Artist Color Monoprint Melissa Meyer
By Melissa Meyer
Located in Surfside, FL
Melissa Meyer (born May 4, 1946) is an American artist and painter. The Wall Street Journal has referred to her as a "lighthearted Abstract Expressionist". She works in various formats, large abstract paintings, watercolors, prints, monotype, monoprint and drawings made up of fields of gestures.
Selected solo shows: Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY; List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA; New York Studio School, New York, NY; Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH. Selected Group shows: “The Maslow Collection: Context and Content”, The Maslow Study Gallery for Contemporary Art, Scranton, PA; “Summer Reverie Invitational,” William Siegel Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.; "One of a Kind; Monoprints, Monotypes", The Gallery, Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown, NY.
Awards and Grants: two National Endowment for the Arts grants, two New York Foundation for the Arts grants , Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, Yaddo Residency Grants.
She is known for her calligraphic abstract paintings. Born on May 4, 1946 in Bronx, NY, she received both her BS and MA from New York University, where she came under the influence of Helen Frankenthaler. With her first solo exhibition taking place in 1976, over the decades that followed her paintings have been written about by a number of artists, including Stephen Westfall...
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Love Me Tender (Abstract print)
By Melissa Meyer
Located in London, GB
Etching - Unframed.
Printed in an edition of 30 by Sue Oehme for Riverhouse Editions; this print is 3/30.
Melissa Meyer has created a diverse oeuvre that includes oil paintings, dr...
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Small Abstract, by Melissa Meyer ( green, yellow and blue abstract pattern)
By Melissa Meyer
Located in New York, NY
This is a screen print, signed and numbered in pencil by the artist. The paper is bright white and the colors are vibrant. Total edition size is 108 plus 18 APs. Published by Lincoln...
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