Melissa Ann Sarat
Symbolic Expressionist
Melissa spent her young growing years on the grounds of an insane asylum, where her father was a psychiatrist.
No, no, she didn’t meet Vincent Van Gogh there; he wasn’t her influence to become an accomplished painter. It was many of the less famous patients that led to Melissa’s special and often times bazaar expression in art.
Sarat says her work is akin to story telling. Her paintings are like a perpetual Marti Gras. Feathered masks appear in many canvases. Every inch of the paintings is overflowing with things. Her female figures are up to their necks in objects. Cats, exotic birds, frogs, a profusion of everything, from Tabasco sauce, glassware, an abundance of food and flesh. One can almost smell the patchouli and attar of roses--full of carnival gaiety, masterfully executed.
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