"Rift Valley, Sonde III" Painting
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
30 W x 60 H in
Ready to Hang
$4,520
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“Rift Valley, Sonde III” is a richly textured mixed-media composition that captures the interplay between organic and abstract forms, evoking the raw beauty of nature. The earthy palette—featuring tones of bronze, ochre, muted greens, and deep umber—merges with subtle metallic highlights and soft gr...
Year Created:
2014
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Mediums:
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Rarity:
One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:
30 W x 60 H x 1 D in
Ready to Hang:
Yes
Frame:
Not Framed
Authenticity:
Certificate is Included
Packaging:
Ships in a Crate
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Shipping is included in price.
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Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
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Canada.
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Born 1977, Canada
In Melisa Taylor’s work, the natural world acts as a blueprint while ideas are sourced from historical art and contemporary culture. She pursued studies in Marine Biology before training in the 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; commercial and electric tools are used to inject unpredictability into the painting gesture. She has assimilated to her visual language an eclectic multilayering process combining pyrography, sanding and detailed stencil compositions on wood. 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.
Melisa's work has been shown internationally in Miami, Chicago, Tokyo, Seoul, Istanbul, Houston, Dallas, Austin, Grand Rapids, NYC, Singapore city, Los Angeles, Melbourne and Shanghai. Her work has been exhibited and acquired in private and corporate collections across North America, Europe and Asia.
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