Mel Reese
Melanie Reese is a painter whose works are impressions of nature––essence of lines and shapes, layered sheets of color and form––existing as symbolic formalism. Lines, shapes, colors, and textures are as central to her work as the process of creating them.She received her B.S. from Skidmore College in 2013. During that time she studied at Studio Art Centers International (SACI) in Florence. She completed an artist residency at Elsewhere Studios in 2013 and went on to receive aPost-Baccalaureate certificate from San Francisco Art Institute in 2014. Reese received her MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) inNYC in May 2017 and attended the Vermont Studio Center residency in November 2017.
Reese has had solo exhibitions at R&D Studios Bushwood and Suzette LaValle inBrooklyn, NY and has shown in several selected group and juried exhibitions including Post-Appreciation at the Diego Rivera Gallery at San FranciscoArt Institute; Play Me A Game at the Skybridge Gallery at Eugene LangCollege; Cognitive Dissidence at Ray Smith Studio; and Unicode at SVA Flatiron Gallery in Chelsea, NY. She was on a panel for the “The EntrepreneurialArtist Workshop” at the Tang Museum and received the Award of Excellence from the 58th Long Island Artist Exhibition at the Art League of Long Island. Her work has been in a number of publications including New American Paintings Northeast Issue 134, New AmericanPainting Featured Artists, Inside Artists, Studio Visit Magazine, ArtworkArchive Blog, and Vellum Magazine.
Reese lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with her boyfriend and cat, Miss Puds, who hates all of Mel’s paintings and is always her toughest critic.