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Melisa Taylor MetzgerSea green Mångata (grid painting minimal wood hard-edge dopamine vibrant)2025
2025
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Part of the Mångata series, "Sea Green" is an intimate, minimalist painting meticulously handcrafted on wood using diverse, layered techniques. This artwork combines the raw mark-making of pyrography with the structured precision of grid geometry, embodying the dualities of human existence. The scorched wood base, evocative of medical imaging, symbolizes hidden struggles and emotional depth, while a vibrant monochromatic moiré pattern introduces energy and order, tempering the turmoil beneath. Thoughtfully abstract, Melisa Taylor Metzger's Mångata series invites reflection on the complexities of our inner worlds and the personas we construct.
In her contemporary practice, Melisa Taylor Metzger masterfully explores the sublime interplay between precision and blur, weaving dualities from contrasting artistic techniques. Her work merges meticulous handcraft with tool-based processes, creating what she calls faillible systems—fragile structures that culminate in a transformative final act. By integrating stencilling, airbrushed paint, and pyrography on wood surfaces, Metzger's multilayered abstractions bridge materiality and emotional depth. Her use of geometric grids, linear repetition, and curvilinear forms evokes a striking balance between mechanical order and process-based improvisation, offering a dynamic interplay of hard-edged geometry and ethereal, gestural abstraction.
Metzger’s compositions, layered with vibrant patterns, echo the data-saturated screens that permeate modern life, capturing the tension of navigating a world overloaded with stimuli. Her biomorphic motifs, emerging from precise grids, invite viewers to find stillness and introspection amidst the chaos. By combining geometric abstraction and gestural techniques, her works radiate both dynamism and meditative calm.
Through her innovative use of patterns and intentional material exposure, Metzger transcends the boundaries of Minimalism and Abstract Contemporary Art. Her paintings, sought after by corporate and private collections worldwide, reflect a distinct visual lexicon rooted in repetition, optical effects, and multilayered geometry. Melisa Taylor Metzger’s art transforms the frenetic energy of contemporary life into contemplative spaces, inviting global audiences to pause, rejuvenate, and reconnect.
- Creator:Melisa Taylor Metzger (1977, Canadian)
- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 16 in (40.64 cm)Width: 12 in (30.48 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Quebec, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU907115537342
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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