Melisa Taylor Metzger’s pulsating compositions use the natural world as a blueprint, balancing blur and precision to explore the sublime. She hybridizes divergent artistic approaches through a labor-intensive process, employing unconventional tools to introduce unpredictability.
Her multilayered technique—combining stenciling, airbrushing, pyrography, and wood staining—blends mechanical execution with chance. These "fallible systems" create tension, where meticulously built layers risk disruption through a final transformative act.
Spectral and biomorphic motifs emerge and recede within obscuring lattices, evoking shifting dreamscapes on human-scale screens. While reflecting the overwhelming influx of data in contemporary life, her work also seeks to temper the noise, offering space for contemplation.
Metzger lives and works in Quebec City.
Her multilayered technique—combining stenciling, airbrushing, pyrography, and wood staining—blends mechanical execution with chance. These "fallible systems" create tension, where meticulously built layers risk disruption through a final transformative act.
Spectral and biomorphic motifs emerge and recede within obscuring lattices, evoking shifting dreamscapes on human-scale screens. While reflecting the overwhelming influx of data in contemporary life, her work also seeks to temper the noise, offering space for contemplation.
Metzger lives and works in Quebec City.
