Melisa Taylor Metzger Art

Plaines & Mines, d’Ombre 2025.2 by Melisa Taylor Metzger envelops the viewer in a delicate tension between structure and atmosphere. Diaphanous layers of cool greens and blues, lilac...

"At Sea between Fossils and Satellites 7" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with art deco aestheti...

Plaines & Mines, d’Ombre 2025.3 by Melisa Taylor Metzger envelops the viewer in a delicate tension between structure and atmosphere. Diaphanous layers of cool pinks and lilac blu...

In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world acts as blue-print while she explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. The artist develops an a...

“Rift Valley, Sonde IV” is an evocative mixed-media composition that captures the raw essence of nature through its textured, multilayered surface. The earthy palette—browns, ochres,...

In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world acts as blue-print while she explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. The artist develops an a...

In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world acts as blue-print while she explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. The artist develops an a...

In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world acts as blue-print while she explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. The artist develops an a...

"At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites I1" is a textured mixed-media painting that explores the connection between the ancient and the celestial. Created with acrylic, latex, copper ...

Teal Between Measures, Blue Emerald by Melisa Taylor Metzger explores the tension between structure and atmosphere through a striking interplay of material and form. Rendered on wood...

Part of the Mångata series, "Cornflower Blue" is an intimate, minimalist painting meticulously handcrafted on wood using diverse, layered techniques. This artwork combines the raw ma...

In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world acts as blue-print while she explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. The artist develops an a...

"Banana skin yellow pill" is one of the 30 small tondo paintings on wood comprising the Dopamine mosaic. This 30-piece ensemble was created between January and April 2024 by the arti...

"Rift Valley, Sonde 1" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...

Part of the Mangata series, "" is a minimalist, intimate-scale painting on wood, created by hand using a mix of techniques. This multilayered piece fuses the tactile rawness of pyrog...

Part of the Mångata series, "Forest green" is an intimate, minimalist painting meticulously handcrafted on wood using diverse, layered techniques. This artwork combines the raw mark-...

In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world acts as blue-print while she explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. The artist develops an a...

In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world acts as blue-print while she explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. The artist develops an a...

In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world acts as blue-print while she explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. The artist develops an a...

In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world acts as blue-print while she explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. The artist develops an a...

"Cherry Coke Red Pill" is part of Dopamine Mosaic, a series of 28 tondos created by Melisa Taylor Metzger in the winter of 2024. This layered piece blends pyrography, airbrushing, an...

The Seismology of Cantilevered Hearts by Melisa Taylor Metzger transforms a circular plywood panel into a radiant field of layered abstraction. Through a vibrant interplay of burgund...

The series "Mångatas" explores the marriage of chance-derived gestures with exacting grid geometry. Built upon a multilayered convergence of aerosol painting and hard-edge technique...

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 12 (horizontal) is a luminous, mixed-media painting by Melisa Taylor Metzger from her decade-long series At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites (...

Part of the Mångata series, "Baby Blue" is an intimate, minimalist painting meticulously handcrafted on wood using diverse, layered techniques. This artwork combines the raw mark-mak...

“Rift Valley, Sonde 8” is a striking mixed-media composition that harmonizes Color-field staining, impasto-relief techniques, and gestural painting to create an immersive, multilayer...

In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world acts as blue-print while she explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. The artist develops an a...

“Rift Valley, Sonde 7” is a striking mixed-media composition that harmonizes Color-field staining, impasto-relief techniques, and gestural painting to create an immersive, multilayer...

In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world acts as blue-print while she explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. The artist develops an a...

In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world acts as blue-print while she explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. The artist develops an a...

The series "Mångatas" explores the marriage of chance-derived gestures with exacting grid geometry. Built upon a multilayered convergence of aerosol painting and hard-edge technique...

"Robin egg blue pill" is one of the 30 small tondo paintings on wood comprising the Dopamine mosaic. This 30-piece ensemble was created between January and April 2024 by the artist u...

In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world acts as blue-print while she explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. The artist develops an a...

Melisa Taylor Metzger’s The Seismology of Cantilevered Hearts 1 transforms a circular tondo plywood panel into a multichromatic composition that blends traditional crafting technique...

In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world acts as blue-print while she explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. The artist develops an a...

"Rift Valley, Sonde 2" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with textural topography. Various techniq...

"Rift Valley, Sonde 2" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with textural topography. Various techniq...

Part of the Mångata series, "Candy Apple Red" is an intimate, minimalist painting meticulously handcrafted on wood using diverse, layered techniques. This artwork combines the raw ma...

In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world acts as blue-print while she explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. The artist develops an a...

Vestiges spectrales I is a large-scale mixed-media painting on canvas that conjures a ghostly seascape where traces of time and matter converge. Using collage, impasto, and embedded ...

“Rift Valley, Sonde IV” is a richly textured mixed-media composition that captures the interplay between natural and abstract forms, evoking the raw beauty of nature while offering a...

Aqua Marina draws from Melisa Taylor Metzger’s recent travels to Guadeloupe, where the lush textures and fluid rhythms of sea life left a lasting impression. Merging her signature py...

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 11 (horizontal) is a richly textured, mixed-media painting from Melisa Taylor Metzger’s decade-long series At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites...

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 15 is a richly textured, mixed-media painting by Melisa Taylor Metzger from her decade-long series At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites (2015–2...

"At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites" is a large-scaled textured mixed-media painting that explores the connection between the ancient and the celestial. Created with acrylic, late...

"Turbulence 18" explores the assimilation of aerosol painting, charring and sanding techniques on wood. This ethereal and atmospheric painting solicits our visual perception by sugge...

In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world acts as blue-print while she explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. The artist develops an a...

Melisa Taylor Metzger’s MH II is a hauntingly immersive optical spray painting on wood, executed with pyrography, airbrushed paint, stencils, and a removed tape grid. The composition...

"Rift Valley, Sonde 1" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...

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. ...

"Nacre, plea and entice 3" explores a singular and cohesive orchestration of aerosol painting, pyrography and sanding techniques on wood. The artist engages her work with notions of ...

Melisa Taylor Metzger’s Sateen X2 extends her exploration of surface and gesture with a composition that feels simultaneously luminous and turbulent. Broad washes of deep cobalt and ...

Part of the Mangata series, "Chartreuse yellow" is a minimalist, intimate-scale painting on wood, created by hand using a mix of techniques. This multilayered piece fuses the tactile...

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 13 (horizontal) is a vivid mixed-media painting by Melisa Taylor Metzger from her long-term series At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites (2015–2...

Vestiges spectrales II is a large-scale mixed-media painting on canvas that transforms the surface into a textured terrain where the visible and invisible intermingle. Built from lay...

Vestiges spectrales II is a large-scale mixed-media painting on canvas that transforms the surface into a textured terrain where the visible and invisible intermingle. Built from lay...

Vestiges spectrales I is a large-scale mixed-media painting on canvas that conjures a ghostly seascape where traces of time and matter converge. Using collage, impasto, and embedded ...

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 14 is a vertical mixed-media work from Melisa Taylor Metzger’s decade-long series At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites (2015–2025). This piece ...

This large-scale painting, executed on an 8 x 4 ft plywood panel, merges the unpredictable, organic marks of pyrographywith with the ethereal softness of airbrushed paint. A meticulo...

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-mak...