Melissa Brown

Fascinated by patterns and drawing influence from sources high and low—including lottery tickets, painted fingernails, landscape painting, and ukiyo-e prints—Melissa Brown explores form and perception in her lushly layered prints, paintings, and mixed-media works. Her training as a printmaker, working primarily with woodcuts (which she describes as “the most archaic form of printmaking”), informs her interest in repetition and its meaning. As she describes: “I’m interested in using and thinking about repeats. What it means to make a repeated image. Or, use that to some sort of advantage, or meaning, or significance.” Brown is particularly focused on the repetitive patterns found in natural and urban environments. Skillfully combining abstraction and representation, she produces landscape scenes touched with surrealism, full of floating rocks, undulating waves, radiant skies, and trees covered with bark composed of expressive faces.

Solo projects and exhibitions include Big Medium for PrintAustin, Austin, Texas, Essex Flowers, New York, New York, Roberto Paradise, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Kansas Gallery, New York, and Canada, New York. Group exhibitions include Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, The Hole, New York, Musee International Des Arts Modestes, France, Novella Gallery, New York, Mass Gallery, Austin Texas, and Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, among others.

Courtesy of Michael Steinberg Fine Art