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Melanie Parke
Flying Aster - Contemporary Still Life Fruit Botanical Bright Red Blue Table

2024

About the Item

In this contemporary oil painting on canvas, a dining room interior scene is vibrant and colorful with an arrangement of flowers in a painted vase next to blue and white China teapot, nude figurine and various fruits, yellow lemons, pears and green limes on a blue table. The teapot alludes to an afternoon of tea with a loved one. The tabletop arrangement is beautifully complemented by the crimson red, blue and ivory botanical patterned wallpaper in the background. Signed, dated and titled on verso. Pastoral and bucolic still life settings emerge from Melanie Parke's life. The artist reconstructs familiar interiors and filters them through the ideology of memory. Her subjects often center on flowers, birds, decorative objects, gardens and domestic settings with an intent in creating safe places for pleasure. Parke utilizes sentiment to craft a domestic locus and seek visual lushness by alternating tonal moods and vivid ornamentation. Painting is a pleasure-seeking process and abstraction a vehicle with which to think and begin. Melanie Parke sets up the space intuitively, in broad and textured gestures, then pieces together arrangements to compose a homespun narrative. Specific interiors and landscapes are implied. Shifting the emphasis to pattern, texture and tone, she works to destabilize notions of exacting representation. This is an effort to build on a sensation of memory which conjures both comfort and longing.
  • Creator:
    Melanie Parke (American)
  • Creation Year:
    2024
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 48 in (121.92 cm)Width: 52 in (132.08 cm)Depth: 1.25 in (3.18 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
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  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Kent, CT
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU19715575552

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