Melanie Reese is a Brooklyn-based observational painter inspired by formalism. A complex layering of abstract elements allows her work to echo the representational through symbolic formalism. Her most recent work focuses on the increasingly tethered connection between bodily autonomy and the global climate crisis.

Reese (b. 1991) holds an MFA from the SVA and a BS from Skidmore College. She has completed Artist-in-Residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Elsewhere Studios. Reese has exhibited widely throughout the United States and has been featured in several publications including New American Paintings, Inside Artists, Studio Visit Magazine, and A Women’s Thing.

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