In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world serves as a blueprint while she explores the notion of the sublime through a balance of blur and precision. The artist develops an aesthetic of duality by hybridizing divergent approaches to art. Her studio practice is labor-intensive, employing various instruments and electric tools used out of context to inject unpredictability into the painting process.
Melisa has incorporated an eclectic multilayering process into her visual language, combining handmade stenciling, airbrushing, pyrography, and staining on wood. Mechanical-like execution and arbitrariness converge to create what she calls "fallible systems," in which painstakingly applied layers can potentially be defaced by a single, final intervention. This generates a subterranean tension that jeopardizes the ethereal quality of her imagery.
In her haunting paintings, spectral or biomorphic motifs populate the surface, simultaneously emerging and receding through an obscuring lattice. Melisa's vibrating geometric abstractions evoke simulacra of human-scale screens, attempting to capture the overwhelming influx of data and distractions contemporary humans face daily in this era of hyper-connectivity. At the same time, her work seeks to temper the “noise” and induce a contemplative experience.
Melisa lives and works out of her home studio in Quebec City.
Melisa has incorporated an eclectic multilayering process into her visual language, combining handmade stenciling, airbrushing, pyrography, and staining on wood. Mechanical-like execution and arbitrariness converge to create what she calls "fallible systems," in which painstakingly applied layers can potentially be defaced by a single, final intervention. This generates a subterranean tension that jeopardizes the ethereal quality of her imagery.
In her haunting paintings, spectral or biomorphic motifs populate the surface, simultaneously emerging and receding through an obscuring lattice. Melisa's vibrating geometric abstractions evoke simulacra of human-scale screens, attempting to capture the overwhelming influx of data and distractions contemporary humans face daily in this era of hyper-connectivity. At the same time, her work seeks to temper the “noise” and induce a contemplative experience.
Melisa lives and works out of her home studio in Quebec City.
