Mel Quintana

Artist Statement

I work typically in solitude to help surround myself in experiences that are quiet, to be stuck with my own chance of myself while the room helps me to lower and ground. I work with all sorts of mediums, perked back on top of an easel and a canvas, bending my back and using it to ease the flow in my wrist. I enjoy working with emotion and use the aching of my body as a way to better connect to the stress, meditating over the fact of its results. This continues to create the idea of a personal touch to surface, highlighting how far I alone as an artist will push myself to gauge messages in the light of workaholism; And how desperate through that am I able go to hurt these cycles to prove the extreme qualities of mental health, and seeing the world through a red perspective.

Biography

Mel Quintana is a Cuban-American woman, located in Brandon, FL. Pursuing college for the height of her career, Quintana has explored several ideas of what the mind of someone bare must be. Her work expresses such severe emotion that you see in no other, with plates of lovable agony. In her personal journey, Quintana has recited the past and what she has endured, and finds an audience through her work in-order to relate and create deep factors. Quintana's work explores subjects in sensitive conversations, having no fear of what the world may see of her. She explores mixed-media, dabbling in both digital and traditional painting. Her mediums most commonly seen are oil paints, expressing her signature values of red. Quintana has been creating since this day, and finds no time to stop.

1st. VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL (digital painting, 30x40 in. print / 2024.)

2nd. INBRED (digital painting, 20x40 in. print / 2024.)

3rd. VENUS FALLING (digital painting, 40x40 in. print / 2024.)

4th. MEN WHO WISH DEATH UPON MY NAME (digital painting, 50x40 in. print / 2024.)