Art Tribeca - ...in the eye of the beholder

Artist: Robert Melee
December 19, 2008 to April 2009
City Hall Park, Manhattan

From the NYC Parks and Recreation website: The current exhibit by Robert Melee features immense forms that while amorphous and featureless, seem familiar in their generalized characteristics and poses–slouching, sitting, pointing, standing upright–but also retain a haunting sense of disguise and alluring somberness. more...

From City Hall News: The four hulking, amorphous sculptures that showed up in City Hall Park last December are not part of some effort by art-loving Mayor Michael Bloomberg (Ind.) to unload some of his collection to raise money for his re-election bid, but the latest installment from the Public Art Fund, scheduled to be in place through April. more...

From the Public Art Fund website: Through April 2009, Public Art Fund will present an exhibition of four large-scale figurative sculptures by New York-based artist Robert Melee at City Hall Park. Since 1978, Public Art Fund has presented 19 temporary exhibitions at this lower Manhattan location, including the work of Alexander Calder, Julian Opie and Roy Lichtenstein. more...

From Me: OK, so maybe I'm just jealous because my art isn't featured in City Hall Park (yet:-). Is it me or does this remind anyone else of wicker-wrapped Chianti wine bottles with lots of candle drippings alongside a plate of spaghetti? Putting these hulking, amorphous sculptures on large red checkered tablecloths would have set the picture "just right" for me.