Roxanna Melendez Art
Puerto Rican, b. 1954
Roxanna Melendez is a visual artist, who often uses Caribbean themes in her paintings. Born in Puerto Rico, she graduated with a master of social work degree from Columbia University and studied art at Hunter College and the Art Students League of New York. Melendez has exhibited in Long Island, New York City, Woodstock, and the Capital District. Her bold paintings depict real-life events within a personal symbolism. Melendez explores her cultural roots and her life in New York City through paintings with strong figurative and narrative elements.
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Painted Textile -- Angels From Puerto Rico (After Caravaggio)
By Roxanna Melendez
Located in Troy, NY
This acrylic painting on textile is a dramatic piece that calls immediate attention because of its content and scale. The painting shows several distinctive figures playing a variety...
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2010s Contemporary Roxanna Melendez Art
Materials
Textile, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Oil Painting on Canvas -- The "Three" of Life
By Roxanna Melendez
Located in Troy, NY
In this oil painting on canvas, three generations of Latina women stand in front of a maroon tree-trunk with a pre-adolescent girl between the mother and grandmother. The grandmother...
Category
1990s Realist Roxanna Melendez Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mixed Media Painting -- Wishful Dream
By Roxanna Melendez
Located in Troy, NY
This mixed media painting shows the aspirations of a young woman who sees endless possibilities on the horizon. Depicted on a blue sky in the center is a fashionable young woman with sun glasses, a red bra, and purple hair. To her right is the outline of a younger girl playing a brown flute. On the other side is a doll in orange who appears to be carrying a girl painted in green. In the forefront, a bicycle and a motor bike...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Roxanna Melendez Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media
Mixed Media Crab Painting -- Se Venden Jueyes
By Roxanna Melendez
Located in Troy, NY
This mixed media painting is of crabs caught in a net. Framing the cerulean blue crabs are green and violet grapes hanging off of a branch. There houses in the fishing village have lights on; the houses on the shoreline run the gamut in colors like magenta, turquoise, and yellow ochre. On one of the crab's claws is the Puerto Rican flag...
Category
2010s Contemporary Roxanna Melendez Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Wood
Oil Painting with Latino Theme -- La Vidente y Vendedora de Cigarros
By Roxanna Melendez
Located in Troy, NY
This oil painting shows a figure of a woman most often associated with Cuban folk life. The title of the painting may be translated as the "The Seer and Seller of Cigars," indicating...
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2010s Contemporary Roxanna Melendez Art
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Oil, Canvas
Oil on canvas Painting -- Le Chat Plus Grande
By Roxanna Melendez
Located in Troy, NY
Although this painting of oil on canvas is named after the "Cat" (le Chat), the painting mainly depicts a woman sweeping with a broom. The cat, a popular tabby painted in great detai...
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2010s Contemporary Roxanna Melendez Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mixed Media Portrait on Canvas -- Huracana
By Roxanna Melendez
Located in Troy, NY
This mixed media portrait shows a Caribbean woman bearing red on her face and surrounded by images of daily rural life. There is a maroon rooster, a turquoise shack, and green palm f...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Roxanna Melendez Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas
Mixed Media on Canvas Self Portrait Painting -- Se Parece a Mi?
By Roxanna Melendez
Located in Troy, NY
This self-portrait of the artist, Roxanna Melendez, is in mixed media and oil paint on canvas. The painting shows several personal details about Melendez, such as the use of Cafe Bus...
Category
2010s Contemporary Roxanna Melendez Art
Materials
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Mayor of San Juan, P.R., Portrait -- Doña Felisa
By Roxanna Melendez
Located in Troy, NY
This is a portrait of Felisa Rincón de Gautier (Doña Fela) whose terms in office as Mayor of San Juan lasted from 1947-1969. The painting captures Doña Fela's iconic gestures: her ever present fans, in this case white with red floral embellishments, her Spanish coif, and a mahogany wicker chair. In the painting Dona Fela wears a violet dress...
Category
2010s Contemporary Roxanna Melendez Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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This is a portrait of Sylvia Rexach, the talented 20th century composer, singer, performer, and actress, among other things, born in Puerto Rico. The painting, as executed by Roxanna...
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This oil on canvas impressionistic painting portrays a figure that was common years ago in Puerto Rico, where the artist hails from. The figure, as the title states, is LA COMADRONA, or the Midwife. Midwives were crucial in rural and poorer neighborhoods in the Island. In this oil painting, the midwife, dressed in white, carries some sort of medical bag...
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Flamenco Gringa
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Located in Troy, NY
This Triptych, three canvases with paint, shows three dancers trying out Flamenco steps. It is an impressive art piece. The modern figures, dressed in black jeans and short cropped h...
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Angelitos (Angels)
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Located in Troy, NY
In this painting several angels in white ascend to the heavens on a light blue background. This piece has collaged a few objects, including hearts on the angels. Echoes of the hearts...
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Yo Soy Borinquen --Albizu Campos
By Roxanna Melendez
Located in Troy, NY
This mixed media painting portrays a young Pedro Albizu Campus, the leader of the Nationalist movement in Puerto Rico (1891 - 1965). Albizu Campos was an iconic figure to his follow...
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Boxing
By Roxanna Melendez
Located in Troy, NY
In a comic book style this Roxanna Melendez painting portrays the advancement of women into formerly male dominated roles. The pink-clad boxer punches her mortified opponent clad in ...
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2010s Contemporary Roxanna Melendez Art
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Mujeres Unidas
By Roxanna Melendez
Located in Troy, NY
Dealing with a contemporary issue - protest marches - this mixed media painting presents a cross section of women dressed in black. A banner above them says in Spanish: "Mujeres unid...
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Piraguas
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Located in Troy, NY
This painting depicts the cart of a street vendor of snow cones ("piraguas") with a myriad of tropical juices. The cart is a riot of colors, most notably, ye...
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Bingo Moment
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Located in Troy, NY
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