7/14/2023 0 Comments Ts moca houston![]() ![]() In new paintings, sculptures, as well as large-scale installation, Melee continues his investigation of the psychology of the everyday. These formal and sociological works evoke both the history of craft and painting in materiality and execution.Īndrew Kreps Gallery is pleased to announce Semi-Quasi-Bower Recreational, an exhibition of new works by Robert Melee. ![]() Exhibited alongside are new, nocturnal skyscapes, pulsating compositions achieved by painting thousands of enamel dots on 4’ x 5’ sheets of black painted aluminum, as well as two new works from Melee’s Bottlecap series, produced by nailing caps from beer bottles into plywood, coated in plaster, and embellished with 23 karat gold, aluminum leaf, and enamel. ![]() ![]() The abstracted figures, imposing in scale and durable in material, are vivid, nude reimaginings of the classic scarecrow. In “Country,” Melee returns to a series produced in 2007 of monumental bronze sculptures. The installation forms a psychological playground in which one can experience a new analysis of the everyday, one in which the viewer is surrounded by that which is both uncannily familiar and disarmingly strange. Ranging from 4’ to 14’ feet high, these moving boxes-normally relegated to a life of back and forth-further the conversation between painting and sculpture. In “Town,” Melee creates a massive installation of cardboard boxes, painted in hi-gloss enamel and stacked in various compositions suggestive of cityscapes. Creating sensuous installations from everyday materials, Melee’s obsession with the accumulation of cast-off and familiar items is seen in the relationship between the indoor and outdoor spaces of the exhibition-embracing colloquial opposites that allow for two bodies of work to develop in both dialogue and contrast. Thus is born Robert Melee’s Town and Country, an installation created during a three-month residency at MOCA Tucson which straddles the line between highbrow and lowbrow. Select apparel pieces are still available here.Susan Sontag explains in her seminal essay “Notes on Camp” that the “essence of ‘camp’ is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration”. In addition to the sneakers, the collab features a 21-piece apparel collection including various graphic t-shirts, hoodies, and accessories. Prior to the raffle’s opening, Travis Scott shared the full video campaign for his new Jordan 1 collab that features Euphoria actor Javon Walton along with MLB greats Reggie Jackson and Lance McCullers. His Nike Air Trainer 1 collab reportedly netted over 1 million entries when it released in May. While the number of entries is high at face value, it isn’t unusual for Cactus Jack sneaker projects to draw numbers like this. Today, a source close to the artist confirmed to Complex that 2.4 million entries were submitted for the “Reverse Mocha” Travis Scott x Air Jordan 1 Lows during the 30 minutes that the raffle was open for on Monday. The much anticipated Travis Scott x Air Jordan 1 Low “Reverse Mocha” collaboration released late last night via a raffle exclusively on the Houston rapper’s online store and, as expected with a collab of this magnitude, both Travis Scott and sneaker fans alike flocked to the website for a chance at securing the shoe. ![]()
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