Mel Prest

I am an American abstract artist focused on color and perceptual visual relationships. Color is something I feel rather than observe: color transmits sensations, and I want my colors to taste like a flavor, feel like a touch or waft like a scent. I use fluorescent, metallic, or phosphorescent paint and mica that flickers, glows or is shadowed in different light conditions. I paint unruled, overlapping lines in three colors, creating a field, a handwoven mesh, or an undulating soft geometry of shifting, slipping time. An optical confusion reminds the viewer that you are seeing something unknown reveal itself, become a painting in front of you.