Rafael Melendez

Untitled

2024

"Untitled, 2024" is a new 20cm x 20cm painting skillfully crafted with acrylic paint, ink, and glass beads on hand-stretched linen. Drawing inspiration from James Ensor's diabolic mo...

Rafael Melendez's "Blue Complex" is a unique and captivating 2003 drawing that embodies the multifaceted essence of the East Village in New York City during the early 2000s. "Blue Complex" is a small-scale drawing measuring only 30cm x 15cm. Despite its smaller size, the vibrant blues used in the piece and the faint grey sky background horizon give the drawing a magnetic allure that draws the viewer's eye. The small scale of the drawing creates an opportunity for unique display and installation potential. "Blue Complex" would look stunning in a minimal oversized wooden frame...

Blackheart's Rave, 2019, Collage, Mixed media: Marker, Pencil, Drawing, Acrylic and Watercolour on gessoed shopping bag mounted on archival museum board in a Street Art styled bespoke oak wood frame. , 93.2 x 63.2 . 3.5 centimetres total dimension This Rave Dance club-inspired artwork takes the energy found in New York City's nightlife. Rafael Melendez - July 2022 Rafael Melendez (b.1970, USA) renders motifs from high past art with self-taught experimental techniques to produce an unexpected and highly unique visual language riddled with esoteric symbolism. The figures that inhabit his paintings are born from a desire to understand 'abnormal' worldviews, such as Outsider Art, transgressive fiction, and metaphysics. In a constantly evolving practice encompassing drawing, collage, and painting, Melendez strives to visualize/express a moment of unity between beauty and that which doesn't make sense. Melendez starts out as an installation and video artist in 1990s San Francisco. As a student for internationally acclaimed writer Kathy Acker and conceptual artist Nayland Blake...

Symbol Abstraction I, 2020 is an enigmatic, medium-sized artwork created by Rafael Melendez using gesso and acrylic paint on paper. Crafted at the artist's Fish Island Studio during ...

Introducing "Emoship," a captivating painting by the esteemed American artist Rafael Melendez, renowned for infusing existentialism and profound meanin...

Rafael Melendez's artwork titled "Mosh Pit X" is a captivating exploration of human interaction and the juxtaposition between the energetic atmosphere of a mosh pit and the confines ...

Original art by DARIA KUSTO The magic flow reality.. Acrylic on canvas Shipped From Spain.

Original art by DARIA KUSTO The magic flow reality.. Acrylic on canvas Shipped From Spain.

Acrylic On Canvas

Acrylic On Canvas

This is a naive and quirky painting that combines humour with street culture and the Twenty First Century Sharp Edge NYC Style for which Berlin is renowned. Berlin's little character is absolutely endearing, he apppears to be ready to leave the canvas to embark on all kinds of adventures courtesy of Elon...

Stoked with street art and graffiti images this frieze painting from Berlin is epic, it showcases the very best of Renaissance Neo-Expressionism. It's full of flashing imagery, pulsi...