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I have been engaging my work with aesthetics derived from the pictorial works of artists Jack Whitten, Sterling Ruby and Gerhard Richter. A hybrid synthesis of the notions of repetition, blur and precision is materializing in my latest corpus. "Our steps will always rhyme" explores the assimilation of aerosol painting and pyrography on wood. This ethereal series solicits our visual perception by suggesting a discoverable lattice of motifs emerging out of defacement and obscuration.

This piece comes ready to hang, either horizontal or vertical, with clean natural wood edges.
I have been engaging my work with aesthetics derived from the pictorial works of artists Jack Whitten, Sterling Ruby and Gerhard Richter. A hybrid synthesis of the notions of repetition, blur and precision is materializing in my latest corpus. "Our steps will always rhyme" explores the assimilation of aerosol painting and pyrography on wood. This ethereal series solicits our visual perception by suggesting a discoverable lattice of motifs emerging out of defacement and obscuration.

This piece comes ready to hang, either horizontal or vertical, with clean natural wood edges.
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Melisa Taylor

Canada

Painting, Spray Paint on Wood

Size: 36 W x 48 H x 1.5 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

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 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. Melisa has assimilated to her visual language an eclectic multilayering process combining hand-made stencilling, airbrushing, pyrography and staining on wood. Mechanical-like execution and arbitrariness converge to create what she calls "systèmes faillibles" whereby painstakingly applied layers are potentially defaced by one single final intervention. A resulting subterranean tension is generated that jeopardizes the ethereal aspect of her imagery populated by spectral motifs that simultaneously emerge and recede through an obscuring lattice. Melisa Taylor's vibrant geometric abstractions evoke human-scaled simulacra of screens that attempt to capture the vertiginous amount of incoming data and distractions contemporary humans experience on a daily basis in this era of “hyper-connectivity”, all the while attempting to temper the “noise” to induce a contemplative experience. Melisa Taylor Metzger's work has been exhibited internationally and acquired in private and corporate collections across North America, Europe and Asia. This piece comes ready to hang with natural wood edges. keywords; wood, Patterns, Geometric Abstraction, Contemporary gestural abstraction, intentionally exposed wood, Striped, maximalisme, Abstract Painting, Repetition, Linear Forms, curvilinear, grid, dynamism, pyrography, materiality, blurred, hard-edged, multilayered, geometry, optical, Minimalism and Contemporary Modern, Spray Paint, stencil, optical, visual perception, stripes, painting, gradients, process-oriented, female painters, 21st century, woman artists

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Spray Paint on Wood

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36 W x 48 H x 1.5 D in

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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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