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Last week marked the opening of yet another major "bi-annual" exhibition. While its organizers are reluctant to call it a biennial, Portugal Arte 10
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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.
He
studied at the School of Visual Arts, NYC and currently
lives and works in New York.
One-artist
exhibitions include- Andrew Kreps Gallery, NY, White Cube and
Sutton Lane, London, Robert Melee's UNIT, The Corcoran Gallery of
Art, Washington, D.C.; Currents 31: Robert Melee,The Milwaukee Art
Museum, David Kordansky, CA, Robert Melee Sculpture, City
Hall Park, NYC, Arena Mexico, Guadalajara, Mexico, Art
Statements, Art 34 Basel, Switzerland.
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.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
