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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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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...
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2010s Contemporary Roxanna Melendez Art

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Wood, Canvas, Mixed Media

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...
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2010s Contemporary Roxanna Melendez Art

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Canvas, Mixed Media

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

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...
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2010s Contemporary Roxanna Melendez Art

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Acrylic, 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

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Canvas, Oil

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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Canvas, Oil

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

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Mixed Media, Canvas

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...
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1990s Realist Roxanna Melendez Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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Find a wide variety of authentic Roxanna Melendez art available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of art to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of pink and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Roxanna Melendez in canvas, fabric, mixed media and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Roxanna Melendez art, so small editions measuring 12 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Raluca Vulcan, Joanna Rusinek, and Amanda Marie. Roxanna Melendez art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $300 and tops out at $3,900, while the average work can sell for $1,270.

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