Igor Melnikov’s art defies easy classification. The Russian-born artist resists labels like Figure Painter or Symbolist, insisting that his depictions of physical objects serve as realistic presentations of ideas, rather than coded iconography. His subdued paintings,... Read More
Filip, Galvan and Melnikov Enter Collection of Global Ties
Work by Traian Filip, Abel Galvan, and Igor Melnikov just entered the collection of Global Ties. This fascinating organization is “one of 92 community organizations in the nation that implement the prestigious U.S. State Department’s International Visitor... Read More
November 17 – 30, 2017 | Igor Melnikov: The Human Vessel
Russian artist Igor Melnikov is one of the top artists to emerge from the post-Soviet Russian art world. Unlike more opportunistic Russian artists who sought to make artwork that would appeal to the Western art collector, Melnikov has always remained true to his... Read More
November 1 – 22, 2016 | Igor Melnikov and Edward Lentsch: Expansion Theory
Igor Melnikov’s and Edward Lentsch’s paintings share an ability to speak directly to the human psyche. Melnikov places the human child in his otherwise minimal paintings, with blessings scrawled in undecipherable Russian on the frames that surround and protect them.... Read More
Great Press Coverage for our Exhibition Survival
The month of August finds us featuring artists we have shown for a very long time along with artists more recently represented. All have the common experience of growing up in single-party states where they ran up against the authorities. Most have since emigrated... Read More
Escape Into Life
“For me, these are not portraits of children, but portraits of human souls,” says Moscow-born artist Igor Melnikov. Each is a picture “of a soul immersed in itself, reticent, perplexed, searching for and preserving a hope. If you take the message of this portrait to... Read More
Oct 25, 2013 | Mutual Art
New work from Igor Melnikov is dedicated to his “principal of simplicity.” “For Melnikov the work has no relevance if analysis is essential to the embracing and understanding of his paintings. The images must permeate that emotional core of our very... Read More