Kevin Melchionne



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Kevin Melchionne


Couples and Families
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Stones and Trees


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Paintings

The desire for consecrated moments, oil on panel, 14 x 11 in Love, and all the intricate years in between, oil on panel, 22 x 20 in What remains in just a sense of getting older, oil on panel, 24 x 24 in A quiet dream of shelter and the serenity it brings, oil on panel, 24 x 20 in. As though another form of life is possible, oil on panel, 20 x 22 in I used to think the soul grew by remembering, oil on panel, 20 x 20 in Grand millennial polemic, oil on panel, 24 x 24 in Like figures in some stylized tableau, oil on panel, 28 x 24 in Lightened by a simplicity of feeling, oil on panel, 24 x 28 in Based on partially forgotten moods, oil on panel, 24 x 32 in Commonplace realities against a background of emotions, oil on panel, 18 x 20 in As though a century had opened just an hour ago, oil on panel, 20 x 20 in The illusion of an individual life that blooms within its own mysterious enclosure, oil on panel, 20 x 20 in

About the Artist



Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA. Grows up in Stamford. Painting at Philadelphia College of Art. Reads John Ashbery and Frank O’Hara. Philosophy at Hunter College, New York. Reads Kant. Lives in Paris. Reads Jacques Derrida, Edmund Jabès, Maurice Blanchot. Graduate school in philosophy at Stony Brook University. Reads Jürgen Habermas, John Dewey, Arthur Danto. Writes dissertation,Cultivation: Art and Aesthetics in Everyday Life. Publishes peer-reviewed scholarly articles on the aesthetics of everyday life, taste, and the relationship between art and well-being in journals such as the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, the British Journal of Aesthetics, Philosophy and Literature, and Estetika. Reads John Koethe. Paints.

Selected Publications




“Bodies of Work,” British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 59, 2019.

“Definición de estética cotidiana,” Revista KEPES, 2017, translated by Horacio Perez-Henao.

“Aesthetic Choice,” British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 57, 2017.

“Art and Well-Being,” Estetika, vol 54, no 2, pp 189-211, 2017.

“The Point of Everyday Aesthetics,” Contemporary Aesthetics, Vol 12 (2014)

“The Definition of Everyday Aesthetics,” Contemporary Aesthetics, Vol 11, 2013
 
“Aesthetic Experience in Everyday Life: A Reply to Dowling,” British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol 51, 2011.

“On the Old Saw ‘I Know Nothing About Art but I Know What I Like’,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol 68, No. 2, 2010

“Acquired Taste,” Contemporary Aesthetics, Vol 5, 2007

“Why Artists Starve,” Philosophy and Literature, Vol 31, No. 1, April 2007.

"Living in Glass Houses: Decoration, Neatness and the Art of Domesticity," INTIMUS: Interior Design Theory Reader, edited by Mark Taylor and Julieanna Preston, Wiley, 2006.  Originally published in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Special Issue on Environmental Aesthetics, Vol. 56, No. 2, spring 1998.  

“Front Yards” The Environment and the Arts, edited by Arnold Berleant, Ashgate Press, 2002.

“Martin Puryear’s Cane Project,” exhibition essay, Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, November 2001.  

"The Aesthetics of Collecting," Philosophy and Literature, Vol. 23, 1999.

"Of Bookworms and Busybees: Cultural Theory in the Age of Do-It-Yourselfing," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 57, No. 2, spring 1999.   

"Artistic Dropouts," Aesthetics: The Big Questions, edited by Carolyn Korsmeyer, Blackwell, 1998. 


For more info and direct links, see my oage on academia.edu. 

Contact


Represented by Jennnifer Baahng Gallery, All inquiries to the gallery, office@baahng.com.