The Intricate Details Of Individual Lives, 2023
Oil on panel
16 x 20 inches
This Sweep Life Has Tattooed Couple With Dog, 2024
Oil on panel
26 x 20 inches
A Quiet Dream of Shelter and the Serenity It Brings, 2024
Oil on panel
20 x 24 inches
Small, Evaporating Sentiments, 2024
Oil on panel
14 x 20 inches
A Different Way Of Feeling, 2024
Oil on panel
22 x 24 inches
They Floated Through Their Lives, Protected By The Great, Exhausted Themes of The Romantics, 2024
Oil on panel
28 x 28 inches
Now And Then Our Life Comes Over Me, 2023
Oil on panel
22 x 28 inches
Kevin Melchionne
Lives and works in New Rochelle, New York
ARTIST BIO
Kevin Melchionne (b. 1964) paints couples and families. Situated in rooms with their pets and art, these couples often stew in tension. Others make a bid for affirmation or acknowledgment. Each painting is a short story, a film still from an imaginary movie. The scenarios often unfold against lush backgrounds of intricately rendered wallpaper in a soft domestic light evocative of 17th–century Dutch painting.
Melchionne grew up in Stamford, Connecticut. He studied painting at the Philadelphia College of Art, lived in Paris, and traveled to Italy. After graduating from Hunter College of the City University of New York with a BA in philosophy, he went on to a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His dissertation was Cultivation: Art and Aesthetics in Everyday Life. All the while, he continued to paint.
His articles have been published in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, the British Journal of Aesthetics, Philosophy and Literature, and Estetika. He has been a Renwick Fellow of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington and a recipient of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council Award for Arts Writing.
