melanie kobayashi

biography

Melanie Kobayashi grew up in southwestern Ontario, Canada. She studied fine arts at the University of Toronto and Simon Fraser University. She currently resides in Vancouver, BC, where she works in a studio in the heart of the city. Her work can be found in private and corporate collections in Canada and Japan.

artist statement

Currently I am exploring gestural mark-making and colour with various media to invoke memories and suggest environments. I am also interested in reframing through reductive artmaking where I rework large pieces into progressively smaller works. In this process, new dimensions are born and the smallest gestures take on new significance. Artists who influence my latest work include Cy Twombly, Joan Mitchell, Mark Rothko, and Jack Bush. You will also find on this site works that deal with specific issues, such as what it means to be Canadian. 

abstract expressionism

social commentaries

(c) Melanie Kobayashi, 2010-2012

Currently exhibiting at Baron Gallery, 293 Columbia St. (near Cordova)

Group Show: "There is No Message"

Until July 15, 2012