Melissa Smith Arts

Artist on VibrantCast

Melissa Smith is a visual artist based near Chicago, IL. Melissa’s practice includes painting, drawing, and collage. She creates vibrant mixed media art that is firmly rooted in abstraction and guided by an intuitive process. Her work is anchored by a love of color, an emphasis on mark-making, and a penchant for visually-interesting surfaces. Melissa finds inspiration in the natural landscape. She creates art as a means of making sense of the world—to convey feelings and render thoughts which may otherwise be difficult to articulate. Using a personal artistic vocabulary, she translates her life’s scenes, interactions, and experiences into bold, colorful abstractions. Melissa graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing and Roosevelt University with a Master of Arts in Teaching.