Melissa Messer is a realist artist living in Seattle and a recent four-year graduate of the Aristides Atelier. Working from observation, her aesthetic is informed by the organic forms of the natural world, the timeless grace of antiquity and the nitty observations of the baroque and naturalist painters.
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