Robert Melee
Robert Melee’s Town and Country, Tucson MOCA
January 13 - March 25, 2018
Robert Melee
Robert Melee’s Town and Country, Tucson MOCA
January 13 - March 25, 2018
Robert Melee
Robert Melee’s Town and Country, Tucson MOCA
January 13 - March 25, 2018
Robert Melee
Robert Melee’s Town and Country, Tucson MOCA
January 13 - March 25, 2018
Robert Melee
Robert Melee’s Town and Country, Tucson MOCA
January 13 - March 25, 2018
Robert Melee
Robert Melee’s Town and Country, Tucson MOCA
January 13 - March 25, 2018
Robert Melee
Robert Melee’s Town and Country, Tucson MOCA
January 13 - March 25, 2018
Robert Melee
Bower Pool, 2016
Mixed media installation
Dimensions Variable
Semi-Quasi-Bower Recreational, Columbus College of Art and Design, Ohio
June 13 - September 10, 2016
Semi-Quasi-Bower Recreational, Columbus College of Art and Design, Ohio
June 13 - September 10, 2016
Robert Melee
Atlantic City #4, 2015
Lamp on inkjet print
40 x 30 x 16 in (101.6 x 76.2 x 40.6 cm)
Robert Melee
Portrait of Debs with Fans, 2015
Ceiling fans on inkjet print
58 x 116 x 11 1/2 in (147.3 x 294.6 x 29.2 cm)
Robert Melee
Nocturnal Skyscape Study, 2017
Enamel on paper
28 x 18 inches
Robert Melee
Dislocated Larimar Anti-Substitution, 2017
Aluminum, enamel, bottle caps plaster on wood
32 3/4 x 24 5/8 x 1 1/8 in (83.2 x 62.5 x 2.9 cm)
Robert Melee
Descending Inter Gilded Substitution, 2014
23 carat gold, enamel, plaster and bottle caps on wood
46 x 32 in (116.8 x 81.3 cm)
It's Last Move, David Castillo Gallery, Miami
September 18, 2015 - October 31, 2015
Robert Melee
Her Last Move, 2015
Enamel and fiber glass and wood, on plexi mounted C-print photos
72 x 68 x 3 in (182.9 x 172.7 x 7.6 cm)
It's Last Move, David Castillo Gallery, Miami
September 18, 2015 - October 31, 2015
Robert Melee
Last Move Light, 2015
Track lighting on plexi mounted C-print photo
20 x 100 x 16 in (50.8 x 254 x 40.6 cm)
Robert Melee
Photo Sconce, 2015
Enamel and fiber glass on light sconce, on plexi mounted C-print photos
50 x 40 x 16 in (127 x 101.6 x 40.6 cm)
Robert Melee
Last Move Curtain, 2015
Enamel and fiber glass and wood
72 x 68 x 3 in (182.9 x 172.7 x 7.6 cm)
Robert Melee
Lamp, 2015
Enamel, plaster and ber glass on wood
32 x 28 x 18 om (81.3 x 71.1 x 45.7 cm)
Robert Melee
Untitled Draped Figure, 2015
Enamel, ber glass and wood, on mannequin
79 x 28 x 30 in (200.7 x 71.1 x 76.2 cm)
a dozen Roses, Higher Pictures, New York
June 26 - August 1, 2014
a dozen Roses, Higher Pictures, New York
June 26 - August 1, 2014
Robert Melee
Gray Curtain, 2011
Enamel on fiberglass
74 x 30 x 6 in (188 x 76.2 x 15.2 cm) each
Robert Melee
I Witness Unit, 2005
Paneling, enamel paint, MDF, DVD, vintage TVs, framed black and white and color photographs, slipcover
84 x 25 x 70 inches (213.36 x 63.5 x 177.8 cm)
Robert Melee
Unit Behavior, 2004
mixed media
108 x192 x 132 inches
Robert Melee
Rite of Spring Mattress Unit, 2011
Mixed media
57 x 48 x 26 in (144.8 x 121.9 x 66 cm)
Robert Melee
Spider Mattress Unit, 2012
Mixed media
58 x 30 x 30 in (147.3 x 76.2 x 76.2 cm)
Robert Melee
Disco Tray, 2009
Silver tray, enamel paint
15 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 2 inches (39.37 x 39.37 x 5.08 cm)
Robert Melee
Door Striped Drape, 2011
Fiberglass, enamel on metal
49 x 18 x 8 in (124.5 x 45.7 x 20.3 cm)
Robert Melee
Disco Hot Plate, 2011
enamel in metal
18 x 10 x 4 inches
Robert Melee
Pulsar Generated Inter Gilded Substitution, 2014
23 carat gold, enamel, plaster and bottle caps on wood
76 x 50 in (193 x 127 cm)
Installation View, Sutton Lane Gallery, London
2005
Studio View, Lisbon Portugal
Robert Melee
It Up, 2008
Bronze, enamel paint
66 x 150 x 66 inches (167.64 x 381 x 167.64 cm)
Edition of 3
Her Leaving, enamel on bronze, Portugal Biennial, Lisbon
Robert Melee’s Talent Show Stage, The Kitchen NYC
2005
Marbelize Mommy Live, The Kitchen NYC
2005
This is For You, performance, Jdson Church, NYC
2003
The First Time I Met Robert Melee, Robert Melee’s Talent Show, The Kitchen, NYC
2010
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
March 13 - April 17, 2010
Robert Melee
Squat, 2010
enamel paint on fiberglass
60 x 28 x 28 inches (152.4 x 71.12 x 71.12 cm)
Robert Melee
Her Chair, 2010
Enamel paint, plaster, fiberglass, on wood, metal, plastic chair
48 x 63 x 28 inches (121.92 x 160.02 x 71.12 cm)
Robert Melee
Anti-Disassembled Substitution, 2004
Wood, plaster, beer bottlecaps, headboard, enamel paint
60 1/2 x 53 3/4 inches (153.67 x 136.53 cm)
Robert Melee
Untitled (Freestanding Curtain), 2010
Enamel paint on fiberglass, metal and wood
Robert Melee
Interfuck Sucklucker Substitution, 2006
beer bottle caps, plaster, enamel paint on wood
55 x 42 inches
Robert Melee
Anti-Inter Shamelessness Substitution, 2008
Wood, stove, plaster, enamel, beer bottle caps
89 1/2 x 32 x 50 inches (227.33 x 81.28 x 127 cm)
Robert Melee
Untitled Painted Curtain, 2009
Plaster, enamel, canvas, wood
46 x 50 inches (116.84 x 127 cm)
Robert Melee
Drape, 2010
enamel paint on fiberglass and wood
87 x 12 x 11 inches (220.98 x 30.48 x 27.94 cm)
Robert Melee
Speaker, 2008
Speaker, plaster, wood, enamel
32 x 12 x 20 inches (81.28 x 30.48 x 50.8 cm)
Drop Ceiling, installation view
Robert Melee
Chair Bred, 2006
plaster, enamel, canvas on wood and fiberglass
54 x 32 x 34 inches (137.16 x 81.28 x 86.36 cm)
Robert Melee
Ass Up, 2006
plaster, enamel, canvas on wood and fiberglass
55 x 38 x 44 inches (139.7 x 96.52 x 111.76 cm)
Robert Melee
Her Leaving, 2006
Plaster, enamel, canvas on wood and fiberglass
70 x 36 x 40 inches (177.8 x 91.44 x 101.6 cm)
Make It Now: New Sculpture in New York, Sculpture Center, Long Island City
May 15 - July 31, 2005
Mobile, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Mobile, Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
Robert Melee
Head Shot, 2006
Black and white photograph, plastic, and lipstick
8 x 10 inches (20.32 x 25.4 cm)
Edition of 25
Robert Melee
Mommy for Rent, 2002
performance
Robert Melee
Mommy, 2000
Slip cover, gilded frame, b/w photograph
84 x 54 inches (213.36 x 137.16 cm)
Robert Melee
Me and Mommy Drinking, 1994
plastic slip cover, color photo, frame
27 x 23 inches (68.58 x 58.42 cm)
Robert Melee
Mommy Drinking, 2002
Wood frame, black and white and color photographs, plastic slipcover
68 x 48 inches (172.72 x 121.92 cm)
Art Statements, Art Basel 34, Basel
June 18 - 23, 2003
Art Statements, Art Basel 34, Basel
June 18 - 23, 2003
Currents 31: Robert Melee, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
June 18 - September 19, 2004
Robert Melee's UNIT, White Cube, London, 2000
Robert Melee
Untitled, 1995
plastic slip cover + enamel on metal door and chair
60 x 78 inches
Robert Melee’s work is an investigation of the psychology of the everyday. Often incorporating cast-off quotidian items alongside vividly colored poured paint, Melee points towards a melancholy specific to domestic space, one derived simultaneously from familiarity, decoration, and otherness. Through this, Melee draws attention to a paradox present every day all around us: a sense of isolation and decay that is built through a repeated attempt at opulence. In 2018, his work will be the subject of an exhibition at MOCA, Tuscon. In addition, his work has been exhibited extensively at venues including: the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, (solo), Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington D.C. (solo), The Contemporary Art Museum Houston, New Jersey MoCA, Asbury Park, MoMA PS1, Queens, Sculpture Center, Queens, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Melee’s work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, and the Milwaukee Museum of Art, among others.
