Artist: Melanie Nuccio
Exhibition: Threshold
Media: Oil on canvas
Gallery: LBSU School of Art
Melanie is an undergraduate whose major is in fine arts. She is part of the School of Art’s Drawing and Painting program. Melanie’s canvas is based on color theory. The painting reflects bright colors which were also part of the group theme.
Threshold is vivid and full of colors. The lighter areas in the middle of the piece stand out to show contrast on the darker areas where it provides the background for the canvas. She uses a lot of different shades for each color to give it a texture even though its on a flat canvas. She also uses a lot of straight lines for the background while using more curved lines to also give the painting a 3D feel. The painting was also fairly big in size.
When talking to Melanie, she told me that the painting was to shine a light on both exterior and interior areas. She wanted to show that there is disorder when it comes to plants in an area that is confined. Melanie also shows us that this is what home means to her and that this may not be what home is for the looker but a window in what she sees.
Melanie asked what home looked like and I had told her that it is too disorderly yet not from plants but from the family that lives within it. But, when looking at Threshold, it shows to me that my house is very boring. The colors in the house are very dull and boring because of this, my view of home is different than Melanie’s. We all grow up in a different environment and that is why she became an art major while I am a biology major.
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