#RobertMelee

[chriswellerphoto]

Close up detail of an art piece by Robert Melee, on display at the Portland Art Museum. The piece is a mannequin covered in enough layers of bronze and paint to lose most of its form but still appear almost human like. The texture created is amazing. • @portlandartmuseum #robertmelee #contemporary #contemporaryart #portland #pdx #keepportlandweird #paint #drip #killeverygram #texture #abstract #saturated (at Portland Art Museum)

[mpefm]

Andrew Kreps Gallery, San Francisco CA USA - Frieze Art Fair New York 2017 : Booth B65 - May 5 > 7, 2017 @FriezeArtFair

http://mpefm.com/mpefm/modern-contemporary-fair-art-press-release/usa-fair-art-press-release/frieze-art-fair-2017-new-york/andrew-kreps-gallery-san-francisco-ca-usa-frieze-art-fair-new-york-2017-booth-b65

[parlorgallery]

Sunday at the gallery with Robert Melee. "Atlantic City 4", Chandelier on ink jet print 40 x 30 x 18", 2015 is available as part of our current exhibition, "8 is Great", 8 Years of Parlor Gallery. @robertmelee Robert Melee’s multi-media practice finds its psychological analogues in the blurring of beauty and grotesquerie, nostalgia and critique. In so doing, Melee’s work suggests an underground or alternative narrative of how and why visual ideas develop; because Melee’s language draws in such a large part from the private realm of domestic environments, his work elicits emotional responses that are both uncannily familiar and disarmingly strange. This is last weekend to see these works on view at the gallery. • • • • #robertmelee #sculpture #installation #chandelier #comtemporaryart #atlanticcity #4 #nostalgia #beauty #grotesque #multimedia #8isgreat #8thanniversary #8yearsofparlorgallery #parlorgallery #parlorfriends #available #investinart #artsbloc #gallery #cookmanave #asburypark #yeswesellart (at Parlor Gallery)

[brigseyeview]

Fanfreakintastic! Looks like gum, but is not! @robertmelee #art #sculpture (at Portland Art Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnJnXVxBZ2U/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=tk8buelyharw

[jorgeclardiary]

Robert Melee: Semi-Quasi-Bower Recreational.

About a month before this show at Andrew Kreps opened, Van took me to Robert’s studio for a visit and I had the pleasure of experiencing his creative process.

I was intrigued by what was going on, as Robert was “painting” with ribbons over surfaces of plastic ridge roofing and showing us a model of an upside down swimming pool with a cascade of glittering decorations falling from it.

Van commented it was like the bower bird making dams in the river.

I told Robert then I knew exactly what I’d be wearing to his opening.

On January 9th, the day of the opening, I was thrilled because I just knew I’d be meshing into the work.

With a chartreuse corduroy Romeo Gigli shirt Paul gave me in the mid 90s and a vintage grosgrain ribbon necklace I got at Narnia, D&G destroyed jeans, Adidas Springblade sneakers and my Fulton Soho umbrella, I made my way with Scooter to the gallery.

We arrived and found Van right away, as well as Kelly, Henry, and John Gilliland. We greeted them and chatted, and walked around and found Dietmar, and Lucius.

I asked Dietmar to take some photos of me by the paintings with the streamers; and we had fun doing some quick styling. We saw Robert and said hello to him, he was wearing a lovely sequined shirt.

I walked around and was delighted to see the photo assemblage David “Debs” Quinn with non-moving ceiling fans attached. (Robert had mentioned during the studio visit how he likes to incorporate functional items that don’t operate within his pieces.)  I was dazzled by the hotel lobby paneling collages with dangling Home Depot-lighting department style  chandeliers drilled into them.

The Bower Pool is enormous indeed, and I felt the melancholy behind the riot of color, fur, tinsel, electric lights and streamers falling out of it. As a child, I used to decorate the house, with my mom’s help, for every single holiday. It was a custom I developed mostly during the year I spent in Maryland, where I attended the first grade. I was blown away by the amazing array of decorations for everything for Halloween to St. Patrick’s Day to Thanksgiving that were available even at the local Safeway, and I would collect these ornaments and keep them in a cardboard box printed in a woodgrain pattern, ready to be put up year after year.

I felt the Bower Pool was like my cardboard box being poured out, and I thought about the value of these ornaments in processing all the emotions I was feeling through the transitions of growing up…the act of decorating taking me away from feelings of loneliness, and serving as a gesture to jump start a feeling of optimism in my parents.

I kind of felt that the entire show was about feelings along those lines.

After the closing, Henry, Kelly, Scooter, Van and I went to a fun birthday party at Steven Maserjian’s for a bit. I said hello to Justin Shaddix who was there, and also to David Serotte, who also joined after seeing us at the gallery and playing a game of finding each other via Find Friends while walking down 8th Avenue. It was wonderful to see them both, and to share heartfelt conversation.

Later on, we went to Julius’ and met Robert, Riley, and John, who were celebrating there. Van got Scooter a burger, which we shared.

Photos: 1, 9. Dietmar Busse. 2, 5, 7. 8. Jorge Clar. 3. Courtesy of The New York Times. 4, 6. Jennifer Sirey. 

[thefashionemissary]

[quinndustry-blog]

#robertmelee 'A Portrait of Debs' at #andrewkrepsgallery Semi Quasi Bower Recreational show http://www.andrewkreps.com/exhibitions

[gavlakgallery]

🏵New York-based artist Robert Melee is interested in taking the "universal psychology of the everyday" and applying it to his own artistic practice. His multidisciplinary practice finds its "psychological analogues," Melee states, in the blurring of the conventional with the surprising: the beautiful and grotesquerie, nostalgia and critique, and so on. Whether it’s honoring or disrupting the integrity of the picture plane, or testing the limits of autobiographical reference, Melee situates his practice in a place where high and low not only interact but cross-pollinate. ⁣ ⁣ From early on, Melee says he has engaged in a conversation between painting and sculpture, making artworks from fragments of the home: appliance doors, household enamel paints, imitation wood wall paneling, curtains, bottle caps, and family snapshots. His work suggests an alternative narrative of how and why visual ideas develop; because Melee’s visual vocabulary draws largely from the intimate realm of the domestic environment, his hope is to create artworks that elicit emotional responses that are both "uncannily familiar and sometimes, disarmingly strange."⁣ ⁣ Robert Melee⁣ 𝘚𝘢𝘨, 2019⁣ Gold leaf, enamel, plaster, burlap, fiberglass on wood⁣ 34 x 42 in (86.4 x 106.7 cm)⁣ @robertmelee ___⁣ #robertmelee #sag #assemblage #contemporaryartwork #sculptureartist #artsculpture #contemporarysculpture #mixedmedia #contemporary_art #artspotlight #nyartists #nycartist #nyartist #lgbtqartist #newyorkartists #gayartists #lgbtqart #nycartist #emergingartist #contemporarycraft #sculptureart #bronzesculpture #americanartist #americanart #artsculpture #figuresculpture #contemporarysculptures #goldleaf #mixedmediasculpture (at Gavlak) https://www.instagram.com/p/CF2uniblMQb/?igshid=naokulynhqib

[nataliekates-stylecurator]

Artist and Muse at @robertmelee solo show at #AndrewKreps #Gallery congrats #RobertMelee on a #Brillant show!

[mpefm]

Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York NY - The Armory Show 2017 New York : Pier 94  | Booth 608 - March 2>5, 2017 @thearmoryshow

http://mpefm.com/mpefm/modern-contemporary-fair-art#RoeEthridge-press-release/usa-fair-art-press-release/the-armory-show-2017-new-york-fair/andrew-kreps-gallery-new-york-ny-the-armory-show-2017-new-york-pier-94-booth-608

[parlorgallery]

Spending some quality time with the art at the gallery... one of my favorite things to do. I decided to have a impromptu photoshoot with them, since the sunlight was so nice. Thursday afternoon at Parlor with Robert Melee, BNS, Ryan Cronin, Adam Wallacavage and Aaron Whisner. To learn more about any of these artists and their available works, email us at info@parlor-gallery.com and/or DM us for pricing. @robertmelee @bnswhat @cronincontemporary @adam_wallacavage @awhizer • • • • #8isgreat #8thanniversary #8yearsofparlorgallery #parlorgallery #parlorfriends #robertmelee #bns #ryancronin #adamwallacavage #aaronwhisner #photoshoot #artcommunity #artsbloc #inpromptu #painting #sculpture #design #investinart #available #sunshine #thursday #gallerylife #cookmanave #qualitytime #asburypark #newjersey #supportthearts (at Parlor Gallery)

[iusculpture]

Robert Melee

Visiting Artist Lecture 

Friday, February 21, 2014

5:00pm in room RTV251, Indiana University, Bloomington

presented by the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts

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Via Andrew Kreps Gallery, by Robert Melee

[parlorgallery]

Love getting lost in this piece by Robert Melee @robertmelee "Unidentified Semi Monic Substitution", beer bottle caps, plaster, enamel on wood, 43x25", 2017, available as part of our current exhibition, "8 is Great", 8 years of Parlor Gallery. Robert Melee’s multi-media practice finds its psychological analogues in the blurring of beauty and grotesquerie, nostalgia and critique. To learn more about Robert and his available works, email us for a catalogue. (info@parlor-gallery.com) (at Parlor Gallery)

[nataliekates-stylecurator]

@robertmelee congrats on your solo show #AndrewKreps Gallery #EmergingArtist #RobertMelee #CollectingContemporary #ArtInstallations #art

[quinndustry-blog]

#tbt #robertmelee #talentshow #thekitchen Fashion show by Quinn