🏵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
