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Director's Picks

Some selections from Melanie Parke's ongoing solo exhibition, The Tea House


Vanilla Pod
48 x 60 inches oil on canvas
$8,500


Rosey Rosey Rose
20 x 20 inches oil on canvas
$2,600


Green Chamomile
40 x 40 inches oil on canvas
$5,600


Earl Grey
30 x 30 inches oil on canvas
$3,900


To view The Tea House in full, click here

To purchase or inquire about any of the work, or to request additional images and/or video, please email katie@meyervogl.com or call the gallery at (843) 805-7144.
Meet Melanie

To know Melanie Parke is to love Melanie Parke. We're grateful to the artist for taking the time to answer a few questions so we can all get to know (and love) her even more. 



Meyer Vogl Gallery: You and your husband (artist Richard Kooyman) recently built a new home in Michigan. Can you tell us a little about what you love about the home? 

Melanie Parke: Oh gosh, to be honest, the sleeping is really good! And the sounds. Loons, geese and all kinds of designer ducks fly over my bedroom on their way from one lake to another. I look up at the stars listening for big rollers on Lake Michigan. I relish the quiet of living off a dirt country road. The lack of human industry allows us to hear birds that are more and more in decline like the black billed cuckoo and the whippoorwill. We did a crazy thing this spring and unexpectedly bought an old neglected apple orchard adjoining our property when it came up for sale. It was never the plan but I feel like we invested in romance. 



MVG: The Tea House exudes warmth and familiarity and perhaps a sense of safety. What would you like viewers to take away from this body of work? 

MP: Maybe that feeling you have when you are in a good friend's kitchen sharing the most casual of moments, feeling very very accepted and welcome. It's not a selfie or an instagram moment, no one is selling anything to anybody, it's just that awareness you are in a place full of many many small gestures of care. When someone tells me they wish they could live in one of my paintings, I love that.

MVG: Do you have a favorite painting in the show? 

MP: I think I've had nearly all of them hanging in my own living room at some point, but there are essences of The Charlotte and Mirabelle that have my grandmother in them. Eleanor. She was my first champion, a window into culture, a lover of flower patterned interiors, and she created rooms I still think about.


The Charlotte by Melanie Parke,  20 x 20 inches oil on canvas (in a private collection)


Mirabelle by Melanie Parke,  30 x 30 inches oil on canvas


MVG: What's a means of creating you enjoy that isn't painting? 

MP: Ha! I'm not the most whimsical person. Hobbies were completely unknown to me until about 10 years ago when I took up baking one very brutal Michigan winter. I find I'm drawn to the slow, methodical and precise process of following a very good baking recipe. (Alice Medrich is my favorite go-to. She is most famous for founding the restaurant Chocolat in Berkley). And then of course the results of happy faces when presenting a panforte nero during a studio visit. 

MVG: Are any fellow artists exciting you right now? 

I'm completely crushing on the ceramicist Ginny Sims right now. She immersed her studies in ceramic history and makes cups and pitchers by riffing on some of England's most classical Staffordshire styles with an immediate human touch and painterly ease. In many ways she has improved on the form because she emphasizes the process of an artist's hand over industrial capitalist production. 



MVG: Who are some of your favorite musicians to listen to while you're working? (Or are you more of a Podcast gal)?


MP: I listen to mostly female voices with contemporary folky vibes and contemplative, smoky lyrics. Courtney Barnett, Laura Veirs, Sylvan Esso, Jenny Lewis, Laura Marling are some faves. For podcasts, Erika Hess's "I Like Your Work Podcast" spotlights artists who also have an arm in arts community outreach. And for news, I try to catch the BBC World Service OS. It's a daily report on coronavirus, which takes the temperature on how the pandemic is affecting human lives through deeply personal stories around the globe.  
What's Happening at Meyer Vogl 

THE TEA HOUSE: Melanie Parke Solo Exhibition
November 5 - 26, 2021

 
For her first solo exhibition at Meyer Vogl Gallery, Michigan-based artist Melanie Parke focused on feelings of comfort. "The Tea House suggests what I want to convey in my still lifes and this body of work in particular: a welcome respite," Parke says. "Especially after a hard year. A place where the viewer can metaphorically slow down, pull up a chair, and feel welcome, wanted, and nurtured. Share in the warmth that tea brings."

 


MIXTAPE: A Group Exhibition
December 3 - 23, 2021
Opening reception: Friday, December 3, 5 - 8pm

Music and visual art so often intermix, with one inspiring the other – igniting ideas or simply lingering in the background; music often becomes married to memories of creation and how it felt to create.
 
For the group show Mixtape, we have invited over 15 visual artists to create just one piece of art with one simple requirement: Name the piece after a song. The song could be one that the artist listened to while making the work, a song that evokes strong memories, or simply a song that the artist is currently listening to on repeat.

November Arrivals 

We've got new work in the gallery by Marissa Vogl, Laurie Meyer, Carlos San Millán, Diane Eugster, and Dylan Martinez. 

MARISSA VOGL


Young Lady by Marissa Vogl
24 x 24 inches oil on canvas
$2,200



Spiced by Marissa Vogl
39 x 28 inches oil on canvas
$4,100



July Mountain Sky by Marissa Vogl
20 x 20 inches oil on canvas
$1,700


View more work by Marissa Vogl


LAURIE MEYER


Cascada by Laurie Meyer
30 x 40 inches oil on canvas
$5,200



Circle of Life by Laurie Meyer
36 x 48 inches oil on canvas
$7,200



Upon Further Refection by Laurie Meyer
40 x 30 in oil on linen

Sold


View more work by Laurie Meyer


CARLOS SAN MILLÁN

Garden #51 by Carlos San Millán
13 x 18 inches oil on board
$1,575


Garden #49 by Carlos San Millán
10.50 x 16 inches oil on board
$1,350



Garden #50 by Carlos San Millán
13 x 14 inches oil on board
$1,500



Garden #52 by Carlos San Millán
10.50 x 14 inches oil on board
$1,200


Garden Corner by Carlos San Millán
9.50 x 13 inches oil on linen
$1,000


View more work by Carlos San Millán


DIANE EUGSTER

Summer Spirit by Diane Eugster
24 x 24 inches oil on panel
$3,800



On the Road by Diane Eugster
24 x 18 inches oil on panel

Sold


The Boathouse by Diane Eugster
24 x 20 inches oil on panel
$3,120


View more work by Diane Eugster.


DYLAN MARTINEZ


A 274 by Dylan Martinez
11.50 x 5.50 x 3.75 inches glass sculpture
$1,950


A 275 by Dylan Martinez
14.50 x 6.50 x 4.25 inches glass sculpture
$2,150


A 276 by Dylan Martinez
11.50 x 6.25 x 4 inches glass sculpture
$1,950


A 277 by Dylan Martinez
12.50 x 6.50 x 4.25 inches glass sculpture
$1,950


A 278 by Dylan Martinez
14.75 x 7 x 4.75 inches glass sculpture
$2,150


A 279 by Dylan Martinez
13.75 x 6 x 4 inches glass sculpture
$1,950


View more work by Dylan Martinez.
Come See Shelby Monteverde in the Gallery Studio

We're thrilled to have Tennessee-based artist Shelby Monteverde making use of the gallery studio for the next couple of weeks. Come say hello and see what's on her easel! 



Look for Ink & Oil on the 11th of each month. 

To view more art, check out our website. To purchase or inquire about any of the work, email katie@meyervogl.com or call the gallery (843) 805-7144. 
“I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's see if I can do it.." -- Lee Krasner
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