The Playground of the Fantastical! at Galerie Protégé
Works by Maria Lynch and Joseph Meloy
September 4th – October 3rd, 2014
Reception, September 4th 6 – 8pm
The art world is the Playground of the Fantastical! When one peers deeply into the complexity of what constitutes this vast world, it is clear that there are parallel universes cohabitating within the vast system of art. The Playground of the Fantastical at Galerie Protégé, launching the fall season, is an exhibition that brings together two different corners of this world in perfect symbiosis. Maria Lynch, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is an internationally acclaimed multi-disciplinary artist now working in New York and Joseph Meloy, a native New York artist who developed a style of painting called Vandal Expressionism, a brand of post-graffiti abstraction.
“Lynch’s work is a very strong example of an artist who is informed by the contemporary art paradigm. Working across many disciplines from performance to painting, she creates hybrids of the human form with architectural attributes that allude to ideas of memory. (Adipex) Through the elegant application of paint and impeccable construction, with feminist undertones of textile work, complex metaphors are constructed often someplace between fantasy and the real.”
