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Melisa Taylor MetzgerSunflower Ray Yellow-Emerald Green-Fire Earth Red-Deep Ocean Blue Totem grouping2024
2024
$2,500
£1,879.34
€2,178.75
CA$3,490.39
A$3,909.42
CHF 2,034.20
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NOK 25,788.50
SEK 24,333.38
DKK 16,256.58
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This Quadriptych totem is a 4-piece ensemble that was created between January and April 2024 by the artist using a mix of techniques including airbrush, stencilling and pyrography.
This totemic group of artworks, created using pyrography and airbrush techniques on wood, exemplifies a striking integration of form, color, and texture that aligns with contemporary minimalist and optical art movements. The collection consists of two circular panels and two rectangular ones, each showcasing a distinct color palette—yellow and gold, deep blues, vibrant reds, and lush greens—organized to create a visually cohesive yet diverse display.
The application of pyrography lends a unique texture to each piece, where the controlled burning of wood surfaces adds depth and an organic touch to the sharp, clean lines produced by airbrushing. This juxtaposition of natural and synthetic, organic and geometric, is a hallmark of contemporary art that explores the boundaries and interactions between different mediums and techniques.
Analytically, the composition's structured arrangement and the rhythmic repetition of lines across different shapes and hues invite viewers to consider themes of harmony and contrast. In the context of contemporary art, this work reflects on the digital era's influence on visual culture, particularly how digital aesthetics can be mirrored and critiqued through traditional materials like wood. This series challenges the viewer's perception, engaging with ideas of visual rhythm, motion, and the impact of color on spatial experience.
These multilayered pieces fuses the tactile rawness of pyrography, vivid airbrushed colors and the crispness of hard-edge grid geometry, capturing a dichotomy inherent to the human experience. The scorched base—evocative of body scan modalities—portrays our internal struggles. The underpainting is overlaid with a monochrome, vivid and orderly moiré pattern appeasing the underlying turmoil. A central band bisects the work mimicking pill design alluding to the duality of sentient life and controlled design. Informed by neuroscientific insights, this series serves as an aesthetic and contemplative commentary on the human condition, prompting viewers to consider the interplay between our spontaneous inner states and the personas we meticulously construct and the various strategies we employ to navigate life's challenges.
Through her innovative approach to contemporary painting, Melisa Taylor Metzger demonstrates a unique ability to distill contemporary chaos into contemplation. The artist has developed a distinctive visual lexicon that appeals universally by transcending geographical and cultural divides. This is gaining her international attention and slowly establishing Melisa Taylor Metzger as an exceptional emerging female painter in the art world.
- Creator:Melisa Taylor Metzger (1977, Canadian)
- Creation Year:2024
- Dimensions:Height: 52 in (132.08 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Quebec, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU907114344342
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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