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The Snow Doesn't Give A Soft White Damn $13500 usd
- Medium
- Oil on canvas over panel
- Size
- 52 × 58 inches
132.08 × 147.32 cm - Year
- 2020
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Portrait $3500 usd
- Medium
- Oil on Linen
- Size
- 18 × 14 inches
45.72 × 35.56 cm - Year
- 2018
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Mirror 1 $4000 usd
- Medium
- Oil on Linen on Panel
- Size
- 20 × 24 inches
50.8 × 60.96 cm - Year
- 2020
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Mirrors (Black) $4500 usd
- Medium
- Oil on canvas on panel
- Size
- 22 × 28 inches
55.88 × 71.12 cm - Year
- 2020
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Mirrors 1 $4500 usd
- Medium
- Oil on canvas on panel
- Size
- 22 × 28 inches
55.88 × 71.12 cm - Year
- 2020
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Poor Butterfly $4000 usd
- Medium
- Oil on canvas on panel
- Size
- 20 × 24 inches
50.8 × 60.96 cm - Year
- 2020
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Rish and Foses 1 $13500 usd
- Medium
- Oil on canvas on panel
- Size
- 52 × 60 inches
132.08 × 152.4 cm - Year
- 2020
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Rish and Foses 2 $13500 usd
- Medium
- Oil on canvas on panel
- Size
- 52 × 60 inches
132.08 × 152.4 cm - Year
- 2020
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Saucer Of Larks 3 $4000 usd
- Medium
- Oil On Canvas
- Size
- 24 × 20 inches
60.96 × 50.8 cm - Year
- 2014
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Sculpture $4500 usd
- Medium
- Oil on Linen on Panel
- Size
- 22 × 28 inches
55.88 × 71.12 cm - Year
- 2018
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Speed $4500 usd
- Medium
- Oil on Linen on Panel
- Size
- 22 × 28 inches
55.88 × 71.12 cm - Year
- 2018
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Fruit Bowl with Leaves $3600 usd
- Medium
- Oil on canvas on panel
- Size
- 18 × 24 inches
45.72 × 60.96 cm - Year
- 2021
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Mirror (Gray) $4000 usd
- Medium
- Oil on canvas on panel
- Size
- 24 × 20 inches
60.96 × 50.8 cm - Year
- 2013
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Among The Worst, Something Left $4000 usd
- Medium
- Oil on canvas on panel
- Size
- 20 × 24 inches
50.8 × 60.96 cm - Year
- 2020
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Citrus $3200 usd
- Medium
- Oil on canvas on panel
- Size
- 11 × 14 inches
27.94 × 35.56 cm - Year
- 2021
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Citrus With Drapery $3200 usd
- Medium
- Oil on canvas on panel
- Size
- 11 × 14 inches
27.94 × 35.56 cm - Year
- 2022
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Citrus With Tablecloth 4 $4200 usd
- Medium
- Oil on canvas on panel
- Size
- 18 × 24 inches
45.72 × 60.96 cm - Year
- 2021
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Eyes $13500 usd
- Medium
- Oil on canvas on panel
- Size
- 60 × 52 inches
152.4 × 132.08 cm - Year
- 2020
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Fruit Bowl $3600 usd
- Medium
- Oil on canvas on panel
- Size
- 16 × 20 inches
40.64 × 50.8 cm - Year
- 2022
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Meyer Lemons $4200 usd
- Medium
- Oil on canvas on panel
- Size
- 18 × 24 inches
45.72 × 60.96 cm - Year
- 2022
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[Don't You Remember] 1 $4000 usd
- Medium
- Oil on canvas on panel
- Size
- 20 × 24 inches
50.8 × 60.96 cm - Year
- 2016
About Mel Davis

Mel Davis’s paintings catch the eye with their vitality and sustain that interest through complex harmonies of tone, style, and reference. Working with the traditional tools and subjects of her medium, the Berkeley-based painter collages varied styles of mark-making into new compositions: long thin brush strokes, hard-edged black zig-zags, and bold Matisse-like flora are all juxtaposed and set in dialogue. Despite this variety in subject matter, though, a singular taste-level and sense of aesthetic depth runs through each work.
The works can feel like a landscape of painting moments: all at once both a visual encounter—a confrontation of colors, a mirroring of forms—and a proposition about painting as a medium—its history and its process. A painter’s painter, Davis is deeply involved in conversations internal to the medium, but that’s not to say her work is academic. On the contrary, there’s a generousness to her vision and a loving passion in its execution. Maintaining her devotion to the tradition of painting, she develops it in ways both poetic and adventurous.
Mel Davis is a Berkeley, California based artist. She grew up in Montreal, graduated with a BFA at Concordia University and moved to the Bay Area to complete her MFA at The San Francisco Art Institute. She is part of numerous private and public collections and is the recipient of The Canada Council For The Arts Grant, The Irene Pijoan Memorial Award for Painting and the Pollock Krasner Foundation Award.
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