b. 1962 in Santa Monica, California
Lives and works in New York, USA.

Born in 1962 in Santa Monica, California, Melissa Kretschmer’s artistic journey is deeply rooted in her exploration of materials and their transformative potential. She began focusing on the inherent structures of materials and the subtle changes that occur when they are combined, delving into how these elements interact and evolve. Her work reflects a continuous investigation into the delicate relationships between materials, emphasizing their unique properties and the intricate ways they come together.

Melissa Kretschmer does not see herself as a colourist, but she brings textures together while making use of transparency, translucency, dullness, and liquidity… thus involving what ultimately proves to be central to her work: ‘How matter reveals as much about light as light reveals about matter … How the two reveal each other’s continual states of change.’