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about Mel Ahlborn |
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A painter, sculptor and illuminator, Mel Ahlborn is a mid-career American artist. Her business, Illumination Studio, is located in the arts district of West Oakland, California. As exemplified in two new bodies of work for 2010, Ahlborn explores art's vocabulary of response to current events through her human faces and figures. She brings symbols and texts from anthropology and history to work side by side with direct observation. The works of Italian Renaissance painters Andrea Mantegna and Carlo Crivelli, American illustrators J.C. Leyendecker and Thomas Hart Benton, Austrian Symbolist Gustav Klimt, printmaker Francisco Goya, and social realist Ben Shahn have been especially influential. For over 20 years, Mel Ahlborn's Illumination Studio has served museums, film companies, academic institutions and private clients. Distinguished for its expertise in the areas of manuscript illumination, illuminated awards, and portraiture, the studio was founded in Encino California in 1989 by Mel Ahlborn. It is located today in the hills of San Francisco's East Bay. During her career, Ahlborn has placed work throughout the United States and Great Britain with leading public and private institutions that include the Getty Center (Los Angeles), the Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco), Washington National Cathedral (Washington DC), Grace Cathedral (San Francisco), the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), Halogen Networks (China Basin) and the British Library (London). |
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