"Untitled" Painting

Originally from New York City, Michelle Melendez grew submerged in the arts. She was fascinated with all art movements happening in the city. Melendez was exposed to many different fusions of art such as graffiti art to fine art. Today living in central Florida, Melendez focus is on painting completely original ideas, composition and layout. She experiments with layers and textures that are rarely seen in fine art. Her subject matter is generally founded on emotional association rather than traditional pictorial basis. Each piece begins on a liberated journey as she works purely on a subconscious level. Disregarding premeditation and logic allows complete surrender of primal expression. She then absorbs her visual subconscious and abstracts the emotion in which it evokes. Bringing to light what radiates in ambiguous form. This process is a fluid movement through emotional, aesthetic, analyst. While Melendez considers herself an abstract artist there are many deliberate aspects of realism in her work. In 2006 while studying master painters her distinct style began to emerge. While not having one specific subject matter, Melendez focus layers of mixed media, and cleverly used transparent paints. Scenes of nature and life often painted on multi canvas works provide a fluidity to her work that seems to connect with her collectors.