The rich hues and vibrant compositions of Melissa Teitel’s paintings bring to life the richness and vibrancy of human experience. Melissa holds nothing back in life nor her work. Her brushstrokes layer pain and joy, tears and laughter, blessings and grief. Her canvases are raw, authentic, and intimate gestures of interwoven and overlapping color and texture. She piles mediums atop one another with little regard for rules or convention - one day spray painting a vintage Christian Dior house coat, the next dipping handwoven fabrics into vats of dye made from henna and flowers, and still the next stomping her paint drenched feet across a roll of un-stretched canvas.
