Melissa Meyer

Lives and works in New York, NY, USA

Artist statement

When I'm painting, restrictions are self-imposed, including choices about color, scale, speed of mark, and format. Variation in these approaches allows me to stay true to the threads that connect my work – the visual energy of a collage sensibility and the expressiveness of painting. The way I think about space, layering, abutted gestures, and attributes of color, such as value and intensity of hue, are deeply influenced by the collage actions of cutting, pasting, and arranging in vertical/horizontal formats. This allows me to isolate elements while building a whole, so that a viewer may experience each part of a painting as dynamically as its entirety. While my painting may initially appear to be fast to a viewer because of the speed of the gestures, attention to each of these elements and what they are doing requires a much slower read.

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