Mel Prest - Alignments

Mel Prest

Alignments

April 4-29, 2006

San Francisco artist Mel Prest combines hues and marks to form simple color patterns which constitute a multi-dimensional architecture based on physical landscapes and rhythmic vibrations. Prest’s hand-painted lines pulsate against her effortless grid planes, creating a synesthesia of perspective. The viewer must focus and re-focus the eye to apprehend undulating lines that distend and contract, shifting in both connotation and appearance in a single gaze. Her paintings are optical quandaries that act as visual metaphors for three-dimensional form.

Mel Prest’s recent exhibitions include Contemporary Perspectives at the MOCA, Santa Rosa, California, 2005; The Line Up, San Francisco Art Institute, 2004; Bowerhaus, the Bower, San Antonio, Texas, 2003; and Open Line, a solo show at the Gregory Lind Gallery, 2003. Prest received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from Mills College and presently lives and works in San Francisco. She was Artist in Residence at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in 2004 and an Affiliate Artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts from 2002 to 2005.

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Waterbear

Waterbear
2005
oil on two panels
16 x 24 x 2 inches

Pale Dusk

Pale Dusk
2006
oil on two panels
16 x 24.5 x 2 inches

Twin Raibow

Twin Rainbow
2006
oil on four panels
24 x 48 x 2 inches

Twin Rainbow

Twin Rainbow
side view


The Things that are Missing

The Things that are Missing
2006
oil on nine panels
20 x 20 x 2 inches

The Things that are Missing

The Things that are Missing
side view

Black Rainbow

Black Rainbow
2005
16 x 16 x 2 inches


megaphone

Megaphone
2006
oil on two panels
16 x 19.5 x 2 inches

Channels

Channels
2005
oil on panel
24 x 24 x 2 in.

Sugar Plum

Sugar Plum
2005
oil on panel
24 x 24 x 2 in.


Beacon

Beacon
2005
oil on panels (diptych)
24 x 30 x 2 in. overall

Blacklight

Blacklight
2006
oil on panels (diptych)
24 x 30 x 2 in. overall

ladder

Ladder
2006
oil on 28 panels
112 x 13 x 2 in. overall