Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Canadian, b. 1977
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.(Biography provided by Stella Ripley)
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Artist: Melisa Taylor Metzger
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 9 (blue vibrant abstract art deco texture)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"At Sea between Fossils and Satellites 9" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with art deco aestheti...
Category
2010s Abstract Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Rift Valley, Sonde 6 (flora blue green tan organic copper abstract texture taupe
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 5" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...
Category
2010s Romantic Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
in City and in Forest (vibrant colorful pop acid jazz detailed modern optical)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"in City and in Forest 22" explores the assimilation of aerosol painting, pyrography and sanding techniques on wood. The artist engages her work with notions of repetition, graffiti ...
Category
2010s Op Art Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
Cascadia 1 (grid painting abstract wood round circular panel contemporary art)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"The seismology of cantilevered hearts, Cascadia 1" explores a singular and cohesive orchestration of aerosol painting, pyrography and sanding techniques on wood. The artist engages ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
Rift Valley, Sonde 9 (blue green gold bronze coastal vibrant abstract texture)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 9" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...
Category
2010s Abstract Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Mangata 32 (small scale grid spray painting abstract wood contemporary op art)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The series "Mångata" explores the marriage of gestural color-field with exacting stenciled graphics. Built upon a multilayered convergence of aerosol painting, pyrography and hard-ed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
d'Ombré 7 (red grid painting abstract geometry striped gestural hard-edge blue)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
Rift Valley, Sonde 6 (flora blue green tan organic copper abstract texture taupe
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 5" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...
Category
2010s Romantic Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
in City and in Forest 34 (grid painting abstract wood contemporary dark red art)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 9 (blue vibrant abstract ocean texture)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"At Sea between Fossils and Satellites 9" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with art deco aestheti...
Category
2010s Abstract Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
d'Ombré 6 (red grid painting abstract geometry striped gestural hard-edge blue)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
d'Ombré 6 (red grid painting abstract geometry striped gestural hard-edge blue)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Spray Paint
d'Ombré 3 (grid painting abstract geometry optical grey yellow green patterns)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
At sea between fossils and satellites 7 (blue organic copper abstract texture)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"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...
Category
2010s Color-Field Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic, Acrylic Polymer
At sea between fossils and satellites 7 (blue organic copper abstract texture)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"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...
Category
2010s Color-Field Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Cascadia 5 (grid painting abstract wood contemporary vibrant colors optical art)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Cascadia 5" explores the assimilation of aerosol painting, pyrography and sanding techniques on wood. The artist engages her work with notions of repetition, mark-making and blur de...
Category
2010s Abstract Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
d'Ombré 3 (grid painting abstract geometry optical grey yellow green patterns)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
Cascadia 5 (grid painting abstract wood contemporary vivid colors optical art)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Cascadia 5" explores the assimilation of aerosol painting, pyrography and sanding techniques on wood. The artist engages her work with notions of repetition, mark-making and blur de...
Category
2010s Abstract Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
d'Ombré 3 (grid painting abstract geometry optical grey yellow green patterns)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
d'Ombré (grid painting abstract geometry jewel tones striped patterns art deco)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
Mangata 52 Oval (circular tondo panel gold grid abstract wood Art Deco op art)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The series "Mångata" explores the marriage of gestural color-field with exacting stenciled graphics. Built upon a multilayered convergence of aerosol painting, pyrography and hard-ed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
d'Ombré 5 (grid painting abstract geometry optical brown flesh indigo patterns)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
d'Ombré 2 (grid painting abstract geometry jewel tones green patterns art deco)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
d'Ombré (grid painting abstract geometry jewel tones striped patterns art deco)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
d'Ombré 5 (grid painting abstract geometry optical brown flesh indigo patterns)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
d'Ombré (grid painting abstract geometry jewel tones striped patterns art deco)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
Mangata 49 Oval (classic blue grid painting abstract wood Art Deco op art)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The series "Mångata" explores the marriage of gestural color-field with exacting stenciled graphics. Built upon a multilayered convergence of aerosol painting, pyrography and hard-ed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
in City and in Forest 24
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
d'Ombré 5 (grid painting abstract geometry optical brown flesh indigo patterns)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
d'Ombré 5 (grid painting abstract geometry optical brown flesh indigo patterns)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
Frost and Decimals (small scale grid fushia painting abstract wood contemporary
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The series "Frost and Decimals" explores the marriage of gestural color-field with exacting grid geometry. Built upon a multilayered convergence of aerosol painting, pyrography and h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Spray Paint
d'Ombré (grid painting abstract geometry jewel tones striped patterns art deco)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
in City and in Forest 21 (grid painting abstract wood contemporary vibrant)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"in City and in Forest 21" explores the assimilation of aerosol painting, pyrography and sanding techniques on wood. The artist engages her work with notions of repetition, graffiti ...
Category
2010s Abstract Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
Frost and Decimals II (small scale geometric painting abstract wood contemporary
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The series "Frost and Decimals" explores the marriage of gestural color-field with exacting grid geometry. Built upon a multilayered convergence of aerosol painting, pyrography and h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint
Mangata XII (small scale grid spray painting abstract wood contemporary op art)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The series "Mångata" explores the marriage of gestural color-field with exacting stenciled graphic. Built upon a multilayered convergence of aerosol painting, pyrography and hard-edg...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
Cascadia 4 (grid painting abstract wood contemporary vivid colors optical art)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
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...
Category
2010s Op Art Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
Cascadia 7 (grid painting abstract wood contemporary vivid spray painting red)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
Cascadia 5 tondo (round circular panel neutrals wood contemporary grid painting)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"The seismology of cantilevered hearts, Cascadia 5" explores a singular and cohesive orchestration of aerosol painting, pyrography and sanding techniques on wood. The artist engages ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
Nacre, plea and entice 5 (grid painting abstract wood round panel white blue art
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Spray Paint
Cascadia 1 (grid painting abstract wood round circular panel contemporary art)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
Mangata XX (small scale grid spray painting abstract wood contemporary op art)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The series "Mångatas" explores the marriage of gestural color-field with exacting grid geometry. Built upon a multilayered convergence of aerosol painting, pyrography and hard-edge t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint
Cascadia 6 (grid painting abstract wood contemporary vivid colors optical art)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Cascadia 6" explores the assimilation of aerosol painting, pyrography and sanding techniques on wood. The artist engages her work with notions of repetition, mark-making and blur de...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
Turbulence 20 (grid painting abstract wood contemporary blue contemporary art)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
Nacre, plea and entice 3 (round circular grid painting abstract wood neutrals)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"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 repetition, mark-making, and blur derived from the pictorial works of artists Jack Whitten...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
Mangata XIc (small scale grid spray painting abstract wood contemporary op art)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The series "Mångatas" explores the marriage of gestural color-field with exacting grid geometry. Built upon a multilayered convergence of aerosol painting, pyrography and hard-edge t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint
Turbulence 22 (grid painting abstract wood contemporary colourful vibrant large
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint
CSW 2024.8 (Grey-blue striped grid squares grid minimal painting wood)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The series "CSW" explores the marriage of chance-derived gestures with exacting grid geometry. Built upon a multilayered convergence of airbrush painting and hard-edge techniques on...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Screen tbd12 (tondo round earth tones grid deco painting abstract geometric)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Melisa Taylor Metzger Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
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