"Frozen Time, Quiet Space"
paintings by
George Meluch
May 4 - 26, 2012
"This body of work is a non-literal,
intuitive investigation into the themes of isolation, and the
constructed ideas of the non-technological human experience. Drawing
from and seeking to undermine the panoply of artistic renderings of
our development as a unique species, these forms and formal choices
toy with a balance of solemnity and extravagance, of contemporary
tradition and historical innuendo.
"The time is no time, and the meta
narrative is shifting. The content playfully taunts both the future
speculations of this special, current year and the ever evolving
contemporary science dealing with the past. Tiny tensions pull at all
the corners of conceptual and painterly edges and color's role is
conflicted in the symbolic and the illusory fashion.
"It is a constructed dream, but it is not an idyllic space, or one based on longing, or on fear. Figure and character are forced into fluidity, disallowed solid identity for the opening of their theoretical purpose. This painted world is a silent world."
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George Meluch is an Indiana based artist, with a 2010 BFA in Painting from the John Herron Institute of Art. He previously studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art, where he won the Fred Walker award for creative writing in 2005 and participated in a number of group shows. In 2010 and 2011 he attended the Purdue Graduate Fine Arts program.
He is obsessed with history and historical theory, dubiously studious of accepted paradigms and ingenuously loving of those which are disregarded. He does not believe in the concept of belief and is a huge fan of all religions and other interesting human practices.
"It is a constructed dream, but it is not an idyllic space, or one based on longing, or on fear. Figure and character are forced into fluidity, disallowed solid identity for the opening of their theoretical purpose. This painted world is a silent world."
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George Meluch is an Indiana based artist, with a 2010 BFA in Painting from the John Herron Institute of Art. He previously studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art, where he won the Fred Walker award for creative writing in 2005 and participated in a number of group shows. In 2010 and 2011 he attended the Purdue Graduate Fine Arts program.
He is obsessed with history and historical theory, dubiously studious of accepted paradigms and ingenuously loving of those which are disregarded. He does not believe in the concept of belief and is a huge fan of all religions and other interesting human practices.
