Robert Melee

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Robert Melee (born 1966) is an artist based in Asbury Park, New Jersey.[1]

Melee was born in New Jersey. He makes mulitimedia art – videos, installations, collages etc - which is focussed on the relationship between the artist and his mother. His work is often compared to that of John Waters and Andy Warhol due to its overt campness.[2] He is also a painter.[3]

He attended the School of Visual Arts in New York from 1986 – 1990.

[edit] Selected Exhibitions

2007

Painting the Edge, Gallery Hyundai (Do Art), Korea

2006

Robert Melee's Poplar, Ingalls & Associates, Miami

2005

Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Museum, New York

Stage Works and Substitutions, Sutton Lane Gallery, London

2003

Greetings from New York: A Painting Show, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg

Robert Melee, Art Statements, Art 34 Basel, Switzerland

2002

Wonderland, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels

Super-Heroes, Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva

You, Me and Her, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

2001

Robert Melee’s Unit, Corcoran Museum, Washington D.C.

2000

Mount Miami, Tel Aviv Artists Studio, Tel Aviv

Units, Jay Jopling / White Cube, London

1999

Group Show, Cartervous & Time, Wales

[edit] References

  1. ^ Genocchio, Benjamin. "ART; Making Art Amid The Ruins", The New York Times, May 22, 2005. Accessed December 30, 2007. "Mr. Melee took his money and bought a house in Asbury Park, after falling in love with the decaying grandeur of the Jersey Shore."
  2. ^ Jerry Saltz, Mommie Queerest, ArtNet.com
  3. ^ Edward Winkleman

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