Robert Melee, "Splosh"
Video
2011
STATEMENT
I'm interested in the universal psychology of the everyday, then making it my own. My multi media practice finds its psychological analogues in the blurring of beauty and grotesquerie, nostalgia and critique. I situate this practice in a place where high and low not only interact but cross-pollinate. In so doing, my work suggests an alternative narrative of how and why visual ideas develop; because my language draws in such a large part from the private realm of domestic environments, my artwork elicits emotional responses that are both uncannily familiar and disarmingly strange.
BIO
Robert Melee specializes in painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video. Intimacy, kitsch, sexuality, and subculture are integral themes of Robert Melee’s multi media work, which often blurs the boundaries between private life and theatre. He lives and works in Asbury Park, NJ. Studied at the School of Visual Arts, NYC,
One-artist exhibitions include- MOCA, Tuscon, Andrew Kreps Gallery, NY, White Cube and Sutton Lane, London, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Currents 31: Robert Melee,The Milwaukee Art Museum, David Kordansky, CA, City Hall Park, NYC, Arena Mexico, Guadalajara, Mexico, Art Statements, Art 34 Basel, Switzerland, David Castillo, Miami.
His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions around the world- including Greater New York, P.S.1, NYC, Adaptive Behavior, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, I am a Camera. The Saatchi Collection, Family, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Make It Now The Sculpture Center, New York City, Portugal Arte 10, Portugal Biennial, Lisbon Portugal,, Wild Exaggeration, The Grotesque Body in Contemporary Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel, hue and crySotheby's S/2 Gallery
Performances include Robert Melee's Talent Show; 2005, 2010 @ the Kitchen, NYC, This Is For You @ Judson Church, NYC
Video
2011
STATEMENT
I'm interested in the universal psychology of the everyday, then making it my own. My multi media practice finds its psychological analogues in the blurring of beauty and grotesquerie, nostalgia and critique. I situate this practice in a place where high and low not only interact but cross-pollinate. In so doing, my work suggests an alternative narrative of how and why visual ideas develop; because my language draws in such a large part from the private realm of domestic environments, my artwork elicits emotional responses that are both uncannily familiar and disarmingly strange.
BIO
Robert Melee specializes in painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video. Intimacy, kitsch, sexuality, and subculture are integral themes of Robert Melee’s multi media work, which often blurs the boundaries between private life and theatre. He lives and works in Asbury Park, NJ. Studied at the School of Visual Arts, NYC,
One-artist exhibitions include- MOCA, Tuscon, Andrew Kreps Gallery, NY, White Cube and Sutton Lane, London, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Currents 31: Robert Melee,The Milwaukee Art Museum, David Kordansky, CA, City Hall Park, NYC, Arena Mexico, Guadalajara, Mexico, Art Statements, Art 34 Basel, Switzerland, David Castillo, Miami.
His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions around the world- including Greater New York, P.S.1, NYC, Adaptive Behavior, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, I am a Camera. The Saatchi Collection, Family, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Make It Now The Sculpture Center, New York City, Portugal Arte 10, Portugal Biennial, Lisbon Portugal,, Wild Exaggeration, The Grotesque Body in Contemporary Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel, hue and crySotheby's S/2 Gallery
Performances include Robert Melee's Talent Show; 2005, 2010 @ the Kitchen, NYC, This Is For You @ Judson Church, NYC
Video
2011
STATEMENT
I'm interested in the universal psychology of the everyday, then making it my own. My multi media practice finds its psychological analogues in the blurring of beauty and grotesquerie, nostalgia and critique. I situate this practice in a place where high and low not only interact but cross-pollinate. In so doing, my work suggests an alternative narrative of how and why visual ideas develop; because my language draws in such a large part from the private realm of domestic environments, my artwork elicits emotional responses that are both uncannily familiar and disarmingly strange.
BIO
Robert Melee specializes in painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video. Intimacy, kitsch, sexuality, and subculture are integral themes of Robert Melee’s multi media work, which often blurs the boundaries between private life and theatre. He lives and works in Asbury Park, NJ. Studied at the School of Visual Arts, NYC,
One-artist exhibitions include- MOCA, Tuscon, Andrew Kreps Gallery, NY, White Cube and Sutton Lane, London, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Currents 31: Robert Melee,The Milwaukee Art Museum, David Kordansky, CA, City Hall Park, NYC, Arena Mexico, Guadalajara, Mexico, Art Statements, Art 34 Basel, Switzerland, David Castillo, Miami.
His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions around the world- including Greater New York, P.S.1, NYC, Adaptive Behavior, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, I am a Camera. The Saatchi Collection, Family, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Make It Now The Sculpture Center, New York City, Portugal Arte 10, Portugal Biennial, Lisbon Portugal,, Wild Exaggeration, The Grotesque Body in Contemporary Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel, hue and crySotheby's S/2 Gallery
Performances include Robert Melee's Talent Show; 2005, 2010 @ the Kitchen, NYC, This Is For You @ Judson Church, NYC