Mel received her BFA from SMU in 1979. After graduation, she worked for American Airlines as a graphic designer and photographer. Later, Auberty directed and owned galleries in New York City and Los Angeles. In ’92, Mel moved back to Texas. Inspired anew by the rugged landscape - big sky, woods, rocks, animals - she began living and working at her family ranch. Thus began her deeper journey into sculpting and painting. Known for her large, expressionistic blue horse paintings, her work is in many corporate and private collections.
My work springs from the touch and smell of Texas soil - a childhood spent immersed in nature - animals, antlers, rocks, bones. I do not, however, seek to recreate, but to generate an image that speaks a new language – one that the viewer responds to through a kind of sense memory.
I call myself an abstract painter because in truth that is what all artists are. We can only invent with our hands and hearts what is intrinsically true – to us – and what is profoundly significant beyond our own identity.
Mel received her BFA from SMU in 1979. After graduation, she worked for American Airlines as a graphic designer and photographer. Later, Auberty directed and owned galleries in New York City and Los Angeles. In ’92, Mel moved back to Texas. Inspired anew by the rugged landscape - big sky, woods, rocks, animals - she began living and working at her family ranch. Thus began her deeper journey into sculpting and painting. Known for her large, expressionistic blue horse paintings, her work is in many corporate and private collections.
My work springs from the touch and smell of Texas soil - a childhood spent immersed in nature - animals, antlers, rocks, bones. I do not, however, seek to recreate, but to generate an image that speaks a new language – one that the viewer responds to through a kind of sense memory.
I call myself an abstract painter because in truth that is what all artists are. We can only invent with our hands and hearts what is intrinsically true – to us – and what is profoundly significant beyond our own identity.