Melanie Biehle

Melanie Biehle is an abstract painter based in Seattle whose work explores the emotional and sensory experience of place.

With a background in psychology, writing, and photography, she creates layered compositions shaped by travel, memory, and the built environment. Her paintings move between soft, atmospheric fields of color and precise, architectural structures -- a duality reflecting the balance of calm and inspiration she finds in the landscapes and cities that shape her.

The ocean is her deepest source of creative energy: its shifting blues and ever-changing shoreline inform both her palette and her emotions. She also draws from the mossy greens and rocky coasts of the Pacific Northwest, the lived-in modernism and desert plant life of Southern California, the refined geometry of Parisian Haussmann buildings, and the dramatic hillside towns of the Mediterranean, where elevation, light, and weathered surfaces above the sea create quiet, natural drama.

Distressing her surfaces with natural materials like shells and stones or building layers with texture mediums, Melanie grounds her abstractions in the tactile memory of real places, exploring the intersection of abstraction, architecture, and the immersive experience of landsca...

Abstract Painting + Composition | Gage Academy of Art in Seattle, Washington

Master of Science in Psychology | University of Louisiana at Monroe

October – December 31, 2024 | Featured Artist, Sorelle Gallery, Westport, CT

August 5 – September 30, 2024 | Featured Artist West Seattle Art Walk, Capers, Seattle, WA

June 2024 | The Monochromatic Collection with Casa di LaValle

December 2023 | Featured Artist Studio 16 at The Building, Seattle, WA

October 2023 | Featured Artist Casa di LaValle, Seattle, WA

August – September 2023 | Featured Artist Seattle Downtown Art Walk, Hotel Monaco, Seattle, WA

April 2023 | Group Exhibition The Art Spirit Gallery, Coeur d’Alene, ID

September — October 2022 | Featured Artist Casa di LaValle, Seattle, WA

2020 Featured Artist Atelier Drome, Seattle, WA

January – July 2020 | Metamorphosis: Half-Century, solo art show CURA, Seattle, WA

July – October 2019 | group exhibition Phyllis Lamphere Gallery, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA

February – July 2019 | Gray Sky Gallery Member Artist, Seattle, WA

May 3, 2018 | What Lies Beneath, First Thursday solo art show Jackson St. Studio, Seattle, WA

April 28-29, 2018 | Bemis Arts Spring 2018 juried group art show, Seattle, WA

November 2017 | Rain City, video art installation in collaboration with Digital Kitchen and Urban Renaissance Group for Second & Seneca building ...