David Mellen Abstract Paintings
American, b. 1970
David Mellen (b. 1970, Chicago, IL, USA) attended the American Academy of Art and exhibited his work in his hometown of Chicago until 1994, when he moved to Europe. Over the next five years, he exhibited work in Paris, Brussels and London while working at studios in Germany and Brussels. After returning to the states and living for a time on the west coast, he moved across the country and now lives with his family in Connecticut and exhibits in New York.
“When I start a new painting, it’s as if I’ve forgotten how to paint. I mean, once a painting is finished, that final image is so separate from the painting’s beginning, which is buried in this history of false starts and mistakes that I’ve forgotten how I went about it. For me, a finished painting is an accumulation of many small decisions which eventually add up to form a final image, but when starting something new, there is no history…there is nothing but a feeling and an idea. There’s a line in Becket’s Endgame ‘There’s something dripping in my head… A heart, a heart in my head.’ That’s how painting feels to me, slowly accumulating drop by drop.”
(Biography provided by Ivy Brown)
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Artist: David Mellen
Triptych Oil on linen: 'Elephant'
By David Mellen
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Oil on Linen: 'Death by Water'
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Oil on Linen: 'Seaside'
By David Mellen
Located in New York, NY
David Mellen (b. 1970, Chicago, IL, USA) attended the American Academy of Art and exhibited his work in his hometown of Chicago until 1994, when he moved to Europe. Over the next fi...
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2010s Contemporary David Mellen Abstract Paintings
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Oil Painting: 'Blind'
By David Mellen
Located in New York, NY
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2010s Contemporary David Mellen Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Oil
Oil Painting on Linen: 'Taime'
By David Mellen
Located in New York, NY
'I am interested in the idea of a human form but with few details that could be recognizable as such. Ideally, it would only be a presence of something a viewer could relate to on an...
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2010s Contemporary David Mellen Abstract Paintings
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Oil, Linen
Diptych, Oil on Linen: 'Némésis'
By David Mellen
Located in New York, NY
David Mellen's work is not easily defined, vacillating between human flesh and metaphoric representation, the paintings beg you to look deeper and to consider their physical properties. Duchamp, de Kooning, Bacon, Giacometti, Rothko are all direct influences for Mellen, yet he can not be strictly categorized as a representational or an abstract artist.
Mellen paints forms reminiscent of human bodies, building them one day at a time for the duration of several months. An endless process of addition and subtraction is at work as the loosely defined figures emerge in sharp contrast with precisely executed geometric backgrounds of neutral colors. The juxtaposition between exposed canvas, well-defined geometric background and a form as the subject of the painting is a motif that has followed Mellen’s work through the years.
The entities in Mellen’s work reference actions rather than concrete characters. For example, in Descent (2020) a fall from grace...
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2010s Contemporary David Mellen Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Oil
Abstract Oil Painting: 'The Bell'
By David Mellen
Located in New York, NY
David Mellen (b. 1970, Chicago, IL, USA) attended the American Academy of Art and exhibited his work in his hometown of Chicago until 1994, when he moved to Europe. Over the next fiv...
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2010s Abstract David Mellen Abstract Paintings
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Large Abstract Painting: 'Fragment'
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Located in New York, NY
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2010s Abstract David Mellen Abstract Paintings
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Diptych; two panels each 70 x 42 in: 'Swansong'
By David Mellen
Located in New York, NY
David Mellen (b. 1970, Chicago, IL, USA) attended the American Academy of Art and exhibited his work in his hometown of Chicago until 1994, when he moved to Europe. Over the next fiv...
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2010s Contemporary David Mellen Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Oil
Abstract Oil on Linen Canvas: 'Corrida'
By David Mellen
Located in New York, NY
David was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1970. He attended the American Academy of Art and exhibited his work in that city until 1994, when he moved to Europe. Over the next five years...
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2010s Contemporary David Mellen Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Oil
Abstract pigment on canvas painting: 'Chimera'
By David Mellen
Located in New York, NY
David Mellen (b. 1970, Chicago, IL, USA) attended the American Academy of Art and exhibited his work in his hometown of Chicago until 1994, when he moved to Europe. Over the next fiv...
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2010s Contemporary David Mellen Abstract Paintings
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Canvas, Pigment
Oil on Linen Abstract Painting: 'As If'
By David Mellen
Located in New York, NY
David Mellen (b. 1970, Chicago, IL, USA) attended the American Academy of Art and exhibited his work in his hometown of Chicago until 1994, when he moved to Europe. Over the next fi...
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2010s Contemporary David Mellen Abstract Paintings
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Linen, Oil
Abstract oil painting: 'Descent'
By David Mellen
Located in New York, NY
David Mellen (b. 1970, Chicago, IL, USA) attended the American Academy of Art and exhibited his work in his hometown of Chicago until 1994, when he moved to Europe. Over the next fi...
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2010s Contemporary David Mellen Abstract Paintings
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Charcoal Minimal Abstract Drawing: 'Voices III'
By David Mellen
Located in New York, NY
David Mellen (b. 1970, Chicago, IL, USA) attended the American Academy of Art and exhibited his work in his hometown of Chicago until 1994, when he moved to Europe. Over the next fi...
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2010s Abstract David Mellen Abstract Paintings
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Wood, Charcoal, Handmade Paper
Painting Abstract: 'Bloom'
By David Mellen
Located in New York, NY
David Mellen (b. 1970, Chicago, IL, USA) attended the American Academy of Art and exhibited his work in his hometown of Chicago until 1994, when he moved to Europe. Over the next fi...
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2010s Abstract David Mellen Abstract Paintings
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Abstract Pigment Painting on Canvas: 'The Rhythm, The Blood'
By David Mellen
Located in New York, NY
David Mellen (b. 1970, Chicago, IL, USA) attended the American Academy of Art and exhibited his work in his hometown of Chicago until 1994, when he moved to Europe. Over the next fi...
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2010s Abstract David Mellen Abstract Paintings
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Large Pigment on Canvas Diptych: 'Still Stand'
By David Mellen
Located in New York, NY
David Mellen (b. 1970, Chicago, IL, USA) attended the American Academy of Art and exhibited his work in his hometown of Chicago until 1994, when he moved to Europe. Over the next fi...
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2010s Abstract David Mellen Abstract Paintings
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Large Pigment on Canvas Painting: 'The Rhythm, The Blood'
By David Mellen
Located in New York, NY
David Mellen (b. 1970, Chicago, IL, USA) attended the American Academy of Art and exhibited his work in his hometown of Chicago until 1994, when he moved to Europe. Over the next fiv...
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2010s Abstract David Mellen Abstract Paintings
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Abstract Pigment Painting on Canvas: 'The Offing'
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Abstract pigment on canvas Painting; "Like Butterflies'
By David Mellen
Located in New York, NY
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2010s Abstract David Mellen Abstract Paintings
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Abstract Pigment Painting on Canvas: 'Ohne'
By David Mellen
Located in New York, NY
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2010s Abstract David Mellen Abstract Paintings
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Abstract Pigment Painting on Linen: 'In Landscape'
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Located in New York, NY
David Mellen (b. 1970, Chicago, IL, USA) attended the American Academy of Art and exhibited his work in his hometown of Chicago until 1994, when he moved to Europe. Over the next fi...
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2010s Abstract David Mellen Abstract Paintings
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