Melissa Libutti

Beginning as a makeup artist, I soon began to paint canvases. Africa and her indigenous people, the music, dance and art inspired my work throughout the years which gives my art a grounding element, touching humanity. Large sculptured masks on canvas emerged which later evolved into my bold series, RISE. Today I create multi layered canvases with tiers and wire constructs adding more layers and blends of paint combined with matte, lumenescence and resin. Obscure faces, figures and scenes reminicent of ancient times that morph and alter with lighting and shifts of ones gaze appear. Ontological inqueries of existence inspire my work, with a passion for the study of space time and the possibilitiy of the existence of other dimensions and cosmic time travel. Questions of life and death linger. Research and education into the latest scientific theories by physicists, scientists and astronomers plus discoveries by the Hadron Collider and The James Webb Telescope combined with my own insights, has prompted an urgent desire to translate these abstract concepts into visual narratives. I implore the viewer to contemplate and spark their curiousity while I provide a visual pathway to the worlds of the intricate unknown using interference...

Studied Fine Art at Fullerton College, CA
Associates Degree in Multimedia From Front Range College

Shown and Sold my work in Exhibitions and Galleries in
California- including Black Market Gallery
Colorado- including Red Door Gallery
Las Vegas and Florida
Currently in The Leather Gallery, Sarasota Florida.

Solo Open Houses
The most productive shows for me are ones I have curated and created out of my own home both in Florida and Colorado

-Venice Art Center
Group Show
-LightSpaceTime