It’s EIL Tuesday again! Make sure you stop by Escape Into Life to check out my post today featuring Minneapolis artist, Melissa Loop. Her Utopian compositions never cease to amaze me!
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Her Own Private Utopia: Melissa Loop
Do you ever wish you could just escape? From your cares, stresses, work, technology, you name it. Take a moment to run away with me into Minnesota artist Melissa Loop‘s landscapes of fantastical refuge. They are part wonderland, part social commentary, but fully contemporary and brilliant.
Walmart, acrylic and enamel on panel, 36×24 Slide down a huge pink curvy slide as tall as a skyscraper leading down to a river coming out of a mountain shaped like a bear’s head? Don’t mind if I do!
City Park 3, acrylic and enamel on panel, 48×36 Her use of flat shapes, vivid colors and perspectives make these a bit reminiscent of vintage travel posters, but then the added contemporary pops of patterns such as swoopy stripes and repeating textile-like shapes add more dimensions of interest. These truly are works that I could escape into– just to try to figure out all that is going on! They are like a crazy dream gone wild. And I love them.
U.A.E. Arc Intervention, acrylic and enamel on panel, 24×36 
St. Thomas All Inclusive, acrylic and enamel on panel, 36×24 To see more of Melissa Loop’s world, please visit her website. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to close my eyes and dream of curvy pink slides.