DANA MELAMED | Duality of Matter — Video

DANA MELAMED | Duality of Matter — Opening Photos

 

 

DANA MELAMED | Feat. Artist @ The America-Israel Cultural Foundation

"Aggression has been an ongoing theme in my work—both among people and between humanity and nature. Humans strive to build and to civilize, struggling against the perpetual growth and decay of the natural world. At the same time, human progress often comes at the expense of the environment. My interest in this conflict is reflected in my choice of materials and motifs and in the techniques that I employ. 

I compose my work layer upon layer, starting with a patched-together aluminum mesh base. The irregular surface of the mesh forms an imagined topography. The pieces grow organically, building up from this surface, as I attach drawings of powers sources, man made and natural found objects, and constructed architectural forms. 

The hanging tendrils that weave in and out of the layered surface and dangle beyond its boundaries suggest veins and plant life as well as mechanical infrastructure, reflecting our competition with the environment for resources. I often use imagery relating to the engine in my work as both a symbol of great achievement in human history and of disastrous destruction. Showing engines overgrown with vines also suggests the on-going struggle between human innovation and nature. 

 Fire was the first element that allowed humans to significantly change their environment. It enabled us both to create and to destroy. I use fire, in the form of a blowtorch, to alter my materials and to fuse one to another. I think of the blowtorch as a paintbrush that makes unique marks on each surface. The unpredictable and sometimes destructive force of fire reflects the power of nature, introducing an element of chance into my artistic process."

— Dana Melamed 

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DANA MELAMED | Duality of Matter - Opening Reception Thurs Feb 28, 6—8 PM

Dana Melamed, Engine 3.2, 2012
transparency film, cinefoil, paper, pencil shavings,
recycled industrial components, acrylic paint, ink,
charcoal, and wire on aluminum mesh
18 x 19 x 3 inches

DANA MELAMED | Duality of Matter

February 23 — April 13, 2013

Opening Reception Thurs Feb 28,  6—8 PM

Von Lintel Gallery is pleased to announce Duality of Matter, an exhibition of new work by Israeli artist Dana Melamed.

In her latest body of work, a series of wall-mounted sculptures, Melamed presents haunting urban landscapes that explore the struggle between humanity and nature. The abandoned environments are littered with the twisted metal of urban decay under violent skies. The intricate and three-dimensional crevices, caverns, stairwells, and passageways can be explored endlessly, yielding a new discovery with each viewing. Tangled vines threaten to envelope the crumbling architecture, reminding us of our tenuous hold on the constructed environment. While humans strive to build and to civilize, often causing harm in the name of progress, nature continues its perpetual cycle of renewal.

Detail

Melamed's work grows organically, building up from the surface of an irregular aluminum mesh. She combines found natural and manmade elements with drawings and sculpted architectural forms. Each piece is developed layer upon layer with paint and glue, agitated with razors to distort and obscure the images, and fused with a blowtorch. Melamed relates her aggressive techniques and the use of both mechanical and organic materials to the conflict between people and the environment. Her layered and repeated process of drawing, painting, building, carving, scraping, and burning also recalls the growth and subsequent destruction essential to our relationship with nature. 

DANA MELAMED | Selected Works

 Dana Melamed

Disrupted Barrier, 2012
transparency film, cinefoil, paper, acrylic,
charcoal, and wire on aluminum mesh
40 1/2 x 33 1/2 x 6 inches

 Dana Melamed

Disrupted Barrier (Detail)

 Dana Melamed, Duality, 2012
transparency film, cinefoil, paper, acrylic, charcoal,
and wire on aluminum mesh
39 1/2 x 29 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches
 

Dana Melamed, Engine 3.4
Engine 3.4, 2012 transparency film, cinefoil, paper,
crylic, charcoal, and wire on aluminum mesh
23 x 23 x 3 1/2 inches

 Dana Melamed

Engine 3.3, 2012

transparency film, cinefoil, paper, pencil shavings, 

recycled industrial components, acrylic paint,
ink, charcoal, and wire on aluminum mesh

21 1/2 x 19 x 4 1/2 inches

 Dana Melamed, Second Order Friction, 2012
transparency film, cinefoil, paper, acrylic, charcoal,
and wire on aluminum mesh
35 x 45 x 6 inches

 Dana Melamed, Second Order Friction (Detail)

Dana Melamed, Error Shift Pattern, 2013
transparency film, cinefoil, paper, acrylic, charcoal,
and wire on aluminum mesh
40 1/2 x 41 x 10 inches

DANA MELAMED | Biography

Dana Melamed Biography

Born in Israel, 1972

Lives in New Jersey, works in New York



Dana Melamed Solo Exhibitions


2013

Duality of Matter, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY


2012

Durst Organization, Conde Nast Building, New York, NY


2011

Transforming Voids, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY


2010

Black Tide, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY


2008

Rhetoric of Violence and Trauma, Durst Organization, New York, NY


2007

Into the Vortex, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY


2006

When Dawn Breaks, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY




Dana Melamed Selected Group Exhibitions


2012

Suspended Disbelief, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY


2010

Fire Works, curated by Mary Birmingham, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
One Thousand and One Nights: the narrative tradition in contemporary Middle Eastern art, curated by Nancy Einreinhofer, William Paterson University, University Art Galleries, Wayne, NJ
Skeptical Landscapes, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA


2009

Sustainable?, Chen Gallery, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT


2008

183rd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
Remarks on Color, Galerie Baer, Dresden, Germany

Future Tense: Contemporary Views/Post-Utopian Landscape, Neuberger Museum of Art, Westchester, NY

Lost Horizon, curated by David Gibson, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA


2006

Go North, New Yorker!, Peekskill Project 2006, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY

Frames Of Mind, The Bernnan Gallery at the Justice William Bernnan Court House, Jersey City, NJ


2005

New Found Land: An Inaugural Group Show, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY

Small Matters of Great Importance, Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY

The Reasonably Straight Digital Photography Show, Old Church Art Center, Demarest, NJ

Cooper Union Residency Cooper Union, New York, NY



Dana Melamed Bibliography


2010

Shuster, Robert. "Fall Guide: Ingrid Calame Finds Beauty in the Grime." Village Voice,
September 1, 2010.


2008

Genocchio, Benjamin. "Today's Landscapes, Tomorrow's Dystopia," The New York Times, June 1, 2008.

Rosenberg, Karen. "Where Have All the Paintings Gone? To the National Academy," The New York Times, May 30, 2008.

Neil, Jonathan T. D. "Special Focus: Reviews Marathon." Art Review, no. 19, February 2008, 82.


2007

Wright, Jeffrey. "The Perennial Allure of Allegorical Black and White." Chelsea Now, vol. 2, no. 8, 2007.


2006

Chambers, Christopher. "July & August Picks." NY Arts Magazine, July 2006.

Baker, R.C. "Dana Melamed," The Village Voice, February 2006.

Melamed Solo Exhibit is slated for New York City," Northern Valley Suburbanite, February 2006.

"Dana Arises," Yedioth Aharonoth, February 2006.



Dana Melamed Public Collections


Frenkel Foundation for the arts, MI



Dana Melamed Residencies


2005

Cooper Union, International Emerging Artists Residence, New York, NY



Dana Melamed Education

1995

Tel Aviv Art Design Center and Tel Aviv School of Visual Art (Vital) – Fine Art


1990

Architectural Rendering and Drafting, concentration on Art and Architecture History, Ort Technicum, Givatayim, Israel

 

ROGER ACKLING — Opening Photos

ROGER ACKLING | Selected Work

ROGER ACKLING | Selected Museums & Collections

Five Sunsets in One Hour 1978
TATE

British Council

 The Courtauld

Untitled (sunlight on wood)

Whitechapel Gallery (exhibited), London, England

1992

wood

References
Exh: Whitechapel open; London: Whitechapel Gallery; Jun - Aug 1992

Photograph
Type: A-negative
Negative number: A92/662
Copyright: © Courtauld Institute of Art

 Roger Ackling Voewood, 2004

Harvard / Art Museums

Art Gallery North South Wales

(Selected)

 

Weybourne, 1992

Voewood, 1999

Norfol, 199

 The British Museum

Roger Ackling (Drawn by); Three Lines in Kenya; three horizontal lines. 1977 Three panels of scorch marks on cardboard

Roger Ackling (Drawn by); 1 HR/ BROKEN/ 8.40-4.40/ 13/4/76; tightly spaced horizontal lines filling two thirds of page. 1976 Scorch marks on cardboard

Roger Ackling (Drawn by); One Hour Sun Drawing (Cloud Study); broken horizontal lines. 1977 Scorch marks on cardboard