Melisa Taylor Metzger

In City and in Forest 30, Abstract Painting

2017

Artist Comments
I have been engaging my work with notions of repetition, graffiti and blur derived from the pictorial works of artists Jack Whitten, Sterling Ruby and Gerhard Richter. A synthesis of these interests is materializing in this latest body of work. "in City and in Forest" explores the assimilation of aerosol painting, pyrography and sanding techniques on wood. This ethereal series solicits our visual perception by suggesting a discoverable lattice of motifs emerging out of defacement and obscuration.

About the Artist
The natural world is the blueprint for Melisa’s work, while allusions to past and contemporary culture inform its development. She approaches her artwork by developing her own hybridization of artistic practices. Melisa relies on commercial tools such as blow torches and electrical sanders to create her work, in addition to other labor-intensive methods. By exploring the assimilation of aerosol painting, pyrography, and sanding on wood, Melisa produces unique abstract art that is simultaneously geometric and organic.

Words that describe this painting: pattern, repetition, blur, composition, hard-edge, multilayered, organic process, serial formalism, geometry, grid, polychrome, modern,contemporary, layers, colourful, multicolored, vibrant, shapes, digital as analog, stripes, fine lines, detailed, abstract, non-representational, mixed media artwork, purple, brown

In City and in Forest 30
Melisa Taylor
Acrylic, spray paint, pyrography, charcoal, fixative on wood
Natural wood edges
Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on back
2017
48 in. h x 36 in. w x 1 in. d
10 lbs. 1 oz.