Robert melee biography

          ROBERT MELEE Born · Education , School of Visual....

          Statement
          I'm interested in the universal psychology of the everyday, then making it my own. My multi media practice (painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation) finds its psychological analogues in the blurring of beauty and grotesquerie, nostalgia and critique.

          Robert Melee is an artist, based in NYC and Asbury Park, New Jersey.

        1. Robert Melee is an artist, based in NYC and Asbury Park, New Jersey.
        2. Robert Melee (born ) is an artist, based in NYC and Asbury Park, New Jersey.
        3. ROBERT MELEE Born · Education , School of Visual.
        4. Robert Melee Biography: Born Lives and works in New Jersey and New York City.
        5. Robert Melee's work is an investigation of the psychology of the everyday.

          6. Whether I am honoring and disrupting the integrity of the picture plane or testing the limits of autobiographical reference, I situate this practice in a place where high and low (social status) not only interact but cross-pollinate.

          From early on, I 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.

          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, I hope my artwork elicits emotional responses that are both uncannily