Melanie Reese, "BL #1"
Acrylic & pencil on paper, 7.5"x5.5", 2022.
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BIO
Reese (b. 1991) is a Brooklyn-based observational painter inspired by formalism. She holds an MFA from SVA and a BS from Skidmore College. She has completed Artist-in-Residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Elsewhere Studios and will be attending JX Farms in 2023. Reese has exhibited widely throughout the United States including Untitled Space (NYC), Maison 10 Gallery (NYC), and The Gallery by ODO (NYC) and has been featured in several publications including New American Paintings Northeast Issue 134, New American Painting Featured Artists, Inside Artists, Studio Visit Magazine, and A Women’s Thing. Reese lives and works in Greenpoint, BK with her husband and their elderly cat, Miss Puds, who hates all of Mel’s paintings and is always her toughest & most vocal critic.
STATEMENT
Melanie Reese is a Brooklyn-based observational painter inspired by formalism. A complex layering of abstract elements allows her work to echo the representational through symbolic formalism. Her most recent work focuses on the increasingly tethered connection between bodily autonomy and the global climate crisis. Embracing the body as the vessel and nature as the foundation of human existence, Reese seeks to generate conversations of sustainable choice through the lens of bodily autonomy and landscape. Utilizing her entirely unique painting through mono-printing, Reese’s observations are a particular confluence of quiet distilled down forms that echo the hills and valleys within nature and confident lines echoing the complexities of bodily form. When thoughtfully constructed, her paintings become narrative.
Acrylic & pencil on paper, 7.5"x5.5", 2022.
SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED. PLEASE CONTACT INFO@COLLARWORKS.ORG FOR A SHIPPING ESTIMATE.
BIO
Reese (b. 1991) is a Brooklyn-based observational painter inspired by formalism. She holds an MFA from SVA and a BS from Skidmore College. She has completed Artist-in-Residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Elsewhere Studios and will be attending JX Farms in 2023. Reese has exhibited widely throughout the United States including Untitled Space (NYC), Maison 10 Gallery (NYC), and The Gallery by ODO (NYC) and has been featured in several publications including New American Paintings Northeast Issue 134, New American Painting Featured Artists, Inside Artists, Studio Visit Magazine, and A Women’s Thing. Reese lives and works in Greenpoint, BK with her husband and their elderly cat, Miss Puds, who hates all of Mel’s paintings and is always her toughest & most vocal critic.
STATEMENT
Melanie Reese is a Brooklyn-based observational painter inspired by formalism. A complex layering of abstract elements allows her work to echo the representational through symbolic formalism. Her most recent work focuses on the increasingly tethered connection between bodily autonomy and the global climate crisis. Embracing the body as the vessel and nature as the foundation of human existence, Reese seeks to generate conversations of sustainable choice through the lens of bodily autonomy and landscape. Utilizing her entirely unique painting through mono-printing, Reese’s observations are a particular confluence of quiet distilled down forms that echo the hills and valleys within nature and confident lines echoing the complexities of bodily form. When thoughtfully constructed, her paintings become narrative.
Acrylic & pencil on paper, 7.5"x5.5", 2022.
SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED. PLEASE CONTACT INFO@COLLARWORKS.ORG FOR A SHIPPING ESTIMATE.
BIO
Reese (b. 1991) is a Brooklyn-based observational painter inspired by formalism. She holds an MFA from SVA and a BS from Skidmore College. She has completed Artist-in-Residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Elsewhere Studios and will be attending JX Farms in 2023. Reese has exhibited widely throughout the United States including Untitled Space (NYC), Maison 10 Gallery (NYC), and The Gallery by ODO (NYC) and has been featured in several publications including New American Paintings Northeast Issue 134, New American Painting Featured Artists, Inside Artists, Studio Visit Magazine, and A Women’s Thing. Reese lives and works in Greenpoint, BK with her husband and their elderly cat, Miss Puds, who hates all of Mel’s paintings and is always her toughest & most vocal critic.
STATEMENT
Melanie Reese is a Brooklyn-based observational painter inspired by formalism. A complex layering of abstract elements allows her work to echo the representational through symbolic formalism. Her most recent work focuses on the increasingly tethered connection between bodily autonomy and the global climate crisis. Embracing the body as the vessel and nature as the foundation of human existence, Reese seeks to generate conversations of sustainable choice through the lens of bodily autonomy and landscape. Utilizing her entirely unique painting through mono-printing, Reese’s observations are a particular confluence of quiet distilled down forms that echo the hills and valleys within nature and confident lines echoing the complexities of bodily form. When thoughtfully constructed, her paintings become narrative.