

Kathleen Melian
Los Angeles, CA
About the Artist
Katheen Melian is a Los Angeles based painter. Her paintings employ varying degrees of representational and figurative images culled from her own photography and found imagery. Her imaginary worlds could readily pass as real, questioning how subjective our perceptions really are. Her own experience is that so much is driven by emotions surrounding an event and one's imagination, interpretation and understanding of the world, which is highly individual and varied from person to person.
Her paintings are depictions of some of her responses to and perceptions of spaces she encountered in re…
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Katheen Melian is a Los Angeles based painter. Her paintings employ varying degrees of representational and figurative images culled from her own photography and found imagery. Her imaginary worlds could readily pass as real, questioning how subjective our perceptions really are. Her own experience is that so much is driven by emotions surrounding an event and one's imagination, interpretation and understanding of the world, which is highly individual and varied from person to person.
Her paintings are depictions of some of her responses to and perceptions of spaces she encountered in reality or how they manifested themselves later in her memory.
Melian's paintings use lush paint and color to describe these spaces that vary from idyllic and opulent to mysterious and almost horrific. She is currently featured in New American Paintings magazine and in an artist interview at CDsavoia.com.
Artist’s Work



Selected Exhibitions
- "Dr. Lau Office Show"
Torrance, CA, 2013 - "Summer Soul Sis", Jaus Gallery
Los Angeles, CA, 2012 - "Lalaland", Thesis Exhibition
CGU East Gallery, Claremont, CA, 2012 - "BOOM", Pacific Design Center
West Hollywood, CA, 2012 - Annenberg Beach House Art Gallery
Santa Monica, CA, 2011
Press and Accolades
- New American Paintings
December/January 2013 - CDSavoia
September, 2013 - Artslant Showcase
June/July, 2012
Education
- Claremont Graduate University, MFA
Claremont, CA,2012 - Santa Monica College Art Mentor Program,
Santa Monica, CA,2009 - Arizona State University, BS, Design Sciences
Tempe, AZ,1986