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Nicole Melnicky
CANADA
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“By utilizing my intuition, I create paintings that evoke a mysterious and futuristic sensibility. As I envision the emergence of a mysterious, supernatural, and romantic queer future.”
Nicole Melnicky is a contemporary artist based out of Los Angeles, California. She received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art, Media, and Design at OCAD University in Toronto, ON. She obtained her BFA from Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a major in Fine Art, along with minors in Textile Design, and Art History.
Dreamer's Eye | Mixed Media
48 X 48
Dreamer's Eye evokes healing, revival, connection, romance, and queer intuition.
Melnicky was hosted as an artist-in-residence at Vermont Studio Center, Otis College of Art and Design, The Ou Gallery, Studio H Canada, LEÑA Artist Research & Residency, and AZULE.
Jacuzzi Rollercoaster | Mixed Media
$2,500
54 X 34
Jacuzzi Rollercoaster conjures the rise and catalyst of twin flame ascension - a vehicle towards queer utopia and the powerful transformation of identity. The moving energy captured in "Jacuzzi Rollercoaster" suggests a past-life time travel and the electrifying twin flame journey. It suggests the resurgence of a new soul energy, healing, and dynamic revival of queer vision.
Her work has been exhibited at The William Vale (Brooklyn, NY), Deanna Evans Project (Brooklyn, NY), The Other Art Fair (Brooklyn, NY), Benjamin Lumb Art House (Vancouver, BC), Art Vancouver International Art Fair (Vancouver, BC), the Queer Art Festival (Vancouver, BC), Las Laguna Gallery (Laguna Beach, CA), Art Show International Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), and Boomer Gallery (London, UK). Her work has been featured on Artsy, Artnet, Saatchi Art, Discover Abstract Artists, Jaamzin Creative Magazine, and Goss Magazine.
“I transcend my pain, by pouring light into my wounds, and transmuting it.”
Nicole Melnicky attended Langley Fine Arts School, a rigorous art magnet school based out of Fort Langley, BC, which fostered her interest in visual art at an early age. She received the Women’s Visionary Scholarship and the Board of Trustee’s scholarship to attend Moore College of Art in Design for her BFA degree. She also received Tiffany & Co. Foundation Women’s Leadership Fellowship, The Sis Grenald Women’s Leadership Fellowship, and the Philadelphia Sculptor’s Membership Award during her education at Moore.
Mirror Ball | Mixed Media
$4,000
72 X 48
Contemporary Abstract Painting
Contemporary Abstract Painting
Selena represents feminine beauty, power, resilience, vulnerability, and strength. This painting celebrates my own struggle with my sexuality yet expresses a unique resiliency and confidence in my own identity.
Selena | Mixed Media
$4,000
72 X 48
Nicole Melnicky was awarded a full-tuition scholarship to attend OCAD University for her MFA degree, as she was awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), the Dean’s Scholarship, and OCAD University’s Graduate Student Project Grant. Furthermore, she received the VSC Artist’s Grant to attend an artist residency at Vermont Studio Center.
“I create colorful abstract paintings on feminism, gender, and queer sexuality. Bold reds, pinks, and purples surface in my color palette, exuding a potent bodily and visceral quality.”
“Through abstraction I transform my pain into power, by reclaiming my core wounding through electrified color, fluid tubular shapes, and the queer body.”
In 2022, Melnicky received the Talent Prize Award for Color 2022, and Honorable Mention Award for 7th Abstract in the International Juried Art Competition by Art Show International Gallery. Her work has been featured on Saatchi Art, The Other Art Fair, Jaamzin Magazine, Discover Abstract Artists, and Goss Magazine.
The Dreamer's Awakening | Mixed Media
$2,500
54 X 34
The multi-layered surface of "The Dreamer's Awakening" distorts time and space, by transporting us towards a futuristic space of queer utopia. Through bold colors, translucent, and opaque layering, I suggest a type of "remembrance" of a past-life twin flame love. The painting "The Dreamer's Awakening" simultaneously embodies a feminine and masculine queer perspective, while signifying the emergence of a romantic queer future.
She previously taught at OCAD University as a Teaching Assistant (TA) and as a Continuing Studies Instructor at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She is currently pursuing a Fashion Design Certificate from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, CA.
In "Shellfish Mademoiselle" a silhouette of a woman dancing in a colorful dress can be distinguished amongst the color palette of burgundy reds, violet and maroon colors. This painting celebrates one's confidence in their identity, sexuality, and body, while encompassing a spiritual energy of self-love, joy, and freedom of being an empowered single queer woman.
Shellfish Mademosielle | Mixed Media
$1,600
54 X 34
In "Shellfish Mademoiselle" a silhouette of a woman dancing in a colorful dress can be distinguished amongst the color palette of burgundy reds, violet and maroon colors. This painting celebrates one's confidence in their identity, sexuality, and body, while encompassing a spiritual energy of self-love, joy, and freedom of being an empowered single queer woman.
In her latest series titled RISE, Nicole explores the possibilities of queer futurity through translucent layering, bold colors, dripping linework, fluid bodily shapes, opaque layers, and vivacious color.
In "Tangerine Romance," I evoke a surrealistic space in which the possibilities of the future become tangible through the process of imagination. By utilizing my ability to paint and dream, I create paintings that evoke a watery sensibility through a whimsical space. I dream of a future world that is fluid. A world that glitters with the essence of pride. Through painting marbled pools or expansive oceans, I imagine a watery space that is airy, and blue; a space that glimmers wit
Tangerine Romance | Mixed Media
$2,000
55 X 34
“I imagine of a shared twin flame love, a mirror, glimmering with the light of ultraviolence, and luminescence of healing, and love.”
Boom | Mixed Media
$2,000
54 X 34
Bloom embodies the softness of queer femininity, sensuality, and romantic intimacy.
In this solo exhibition by Art Show International Gallery - RISE features a collection of 18 large-scale contemporary gestural abstract-expressionist paintings. The paintings reclaim the queer body with bold prideful color and abstraction. The visceral yet potent color in RISE elicits a bold bodily expression, while openly expressing queer sexuality.
In the piece "Lychee," I capture the feeling of a transformed, healed, and liberated body, one that embodies queer pride. The saturated and translucent pinks and opaque bold colours, speak to the powerful reclaiming agency that I hold over and within my body. By painting the interior of the body through an intuitive approach, I recover and connect to the deeper part of my true queer nature.
Lychee | Mixed Media
$200
15 X 11
Through RISE, Nicole empowers the LGTBQ+ community to step into their authentic identities with pride and queer empowerment. By the nature of the work, Nicole encourages others to express their identities unapologetically.
Bactrian Camel | Mixed Media
$400
24 X 18
The painting Bactrian Camel speaks to the idea of embodiment the queer body, queer vulnerability, and the embrace of an animal-like armour of identity.
“I manifest my own ethereal dream and vision of a queer utopia, eternal twin flame union.”
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