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Melisa Taylor MetzgerHUBLOT NACRE (thick paint round off-white biophilic textured painting sand shell2025
2025
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HUBLOT NACRE is a small-scale, mixed-media assemblage on wood that captures the raw materiality and ephemeral beauty of the natural world. Created following a trip to the Caribbean, the piece integrates found objects—shells, sand, and organic fragments collected along the shore—into an impasto surface that evokes the textural complexity of a marine fossilscape. Through the interplay of collage, sedimentation, and relief, the work suggests an archaeological discovery, as if unearthing remnants of an oceanic ecosystem crystallized in time. These embedded forms blur the boundary between artifact and abstraction, engaging with the themes of erosion, renewal, and the cyclical rhythms of nature.
The color palette shimmers between nacreous white opalescence, muted sandy tones, and lilac iridescence, shifting with the light to reveal an ethereal luminosity. This iridescence enhances the sense of drift and luster, recalling the fluid, transformative nature of coastal environments. The circular format reinforces the sensation of peering through a porthole to the deep, immersing the viewer in a suspended moment of littoral alchemy, where land and sea converge in an ever-changing dialogue. The layering of textures and organic matter creates a visual and tactile experience that bridges painting and sculpture, recalling traditions of Art Informel and Matter Painting, where the surface itself becomes a terrain to explore.
Situated within the realm of Eco-Art, Organic Abstraction, and Mixed-Media Assemblage, HUBLOT NACRE resonates with the principles of Biophilic Art, drawing the viewer into an intuitive, sensory connection with natural cycles. The work also engages with conceptual inquiries into time, transformation, and the imprint of natural forces, situating it within an abstract landscape of memory and materiality. Like the ebb and flow of tides shaping the shore, this piece captures fleeting echoes of the littoral world, offering a meditation on the tension between permanence and impermanence, the seen and the unseen.
- Creator:Melisa Taylor Metzger (1977, Canadian)
- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 2 in (5.08 cm)Diameter: 12 in (30.48 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Quebec, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU907116028842
Melisa Taylor Metzger
In Melisa Taylor’s work, the natural world acts as blueprint while ideas are sourced from historical art and contemporary culture. She pursued studies in Marine Biology before training in classical art of the Old Masters. She grew fascinated by the works of Flemish painters Vermeer and Rembrandt whose symbolic use of light influences her practice up to this day. Melisa explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. She develops an aesthetic of duality by hybridizing divergent approaches to art. Her studio practice is labor-intensive; various instruments and electric tools are used out-of-context to inject unpredictability in the painting gesture. She has assimilated in her practice an eclectic multilayering process combining pyrography, sanding and detailed stencil compositions on wood. Wabi-sabi -embracing chance- is a central idea in her work, equally so is meticulous control. This results in a subterranean tension that jeopardizes the ethereal appearance of her pieces; arbitrariness and mechanical execution fuse to create what she calls "systèmes faillibles" where spectral motifs seek to emerge out of obscuring lattices. Her work has been exhibited internationally and acquired in private and corporate collections across North America and abroad.
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