ARTIST STATEMENT

I channel color to create pulsating combinations. Experimentation with hues and surfaces pushes the work in constant new directions. Triangles, color, composition, and space are concepts I use to build a painting. These elements can be viewed as patterns, the natural world, direction, or the idea of balance. I paint intuitively with many layers and leave the under paintings as traces of the process behind.

ARTIST BIO

Melissa Staiger is a Brooklyn based non-objective painter of American and and Cherokee descent. Staiger received a BFA from Maryland Institute, College of Art and a MFA from Pratt Institute, NYC. She is represented by the transient Gallery Ell and Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, both located in Brooklyn. Her work is shown nationally across the country.

Staiger is strongly involved in the New York art community and is an active member of tART, a woman's art collective. She curates abstract art exhibitions to support artists. For more information go to www.melissastaiger.com.