LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
LandEscape meets
Melisa King
An interview by Katherine Williams, curator and Josh Ryder, curator landescape @ europe. com
Artist Melisa King ' s work is an insightful investigation about the point of convergence between experience and imagination. When interpreting the reality she perceives, her paintings condense the vital relationship between direct experience and visual intepretation, to walk the viewers through a multilayeredaesthetic experience. In her The Sun is God series that we ' ll be discussing in the following pages she encapsulated both abstract and figurative, to trigger the viewers ' perceptual parameters. One of the most impressive aspects of King ' work is the way it accomplishes the difficult task of emphasizing that beauty is not always can be found on a large scale, but also in our daily life ' s experience: we are very pleased to introduce our readers to her stimulating and multifaceted artistic production.
Hello Melisa and welcome to LandEscape: we would start this interview with a couple of questions about your multifaceted professional background. You have a solid formal training: you studied painting in Florence, Italy and later you received your MA in Visual Arts and Communication Design from Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey: how do these experience influence the way you currently conceive your works? And in particular, how does your cultural substratum inform the way you relate yourself to art production?
Istanbul, the city where I was born and live currently, is in a very strategic geographical position. It consists of two continents both Europe and Asia. Personally I am
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