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About this Artwork
Melissa Meyer has created a diverse oeuvre that includes oil paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints and large-scale public commissions.
Her work is strongly influenced by color and line. Her brushstrokes and patterns possess a glyph-like quality, conveying a vibrant and deeply personal aesthetic language.
Meyer is skilled in a range of different printing techniques, including lithography, etching, monotype, silkscreen, and spit bite aquatint.
This etching was named after reading the two-volume Rock & Roll Elvis Presley biography, after Presley’s iconic song.
Printed in an edition of 30 by Sue Oehme for Riverhouse Editions; this print is 3/30.
This print followed from a 70” x 80” (178 x 203 cm) oil painting of the same name with similar visual attributes from 2002.
About the Artist
Melissa Meyer is an American abstract painter and printmaker. Her energetic, colorful compositions express emotion and the transitory essence of reality.
She lives and works in New York City.