Robert Melzmuf is an artist who lives in New York City and paints with an emphasis on volumetric but light-weight compositions. Melzmuf’s palette is a consistent selection of light colors that layer and mix with white paint. The artist’s application of color along the picture plane’s horizontal axis with his combination of paint and wax creates a smooth but dense texture that catches the eye.

Each one of Melzmuf’s paintings are numbered in an ongoing series titled Waves. Each series differs from the other and consists of paintings that pursue the notions of atmosphere through unique fusions of color. White remains Melzmuf’s primary color that first transforms into a gray-scale and then becomes a solid pigment like yellow, blue, brown, purple or red. While the painting process might carry an ongoing meditative context, the result of each composition is strikingly different. Melzmuf takes the viewer away from suggestions of figuration in order to emphasize the subliminal impression created by color.

Robert Melzmuf has exhibited his work nationally and throughout New York City. In 2000 the 55 Mercer Gallery, located in New York, hosted a solo exhibition of the artist’s recent paintings. This was followed by another solo exhibition the following year. In 2002 the artist was awarded a residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Melzmuf received his third solo show four years later at the 2/20 Gallery, in New York and then participated in a group exhibition titled Cerceo, Efremoff, Melzmuf that took place in 2007 at the JMS Gallery in Philadelphia, PA. Since 2010 the artist has received three solo exhibitions at the Giacobetti Paul Gallery, located in Brooklyn, New York. In January 2015 Sideshow Gallery of Brooklyn, New York included Melzmuf’s painting in a group exhibition titled Circle the Wagons. The Arcilesi Holmberg Gallery featured another work by the artist in a group show titled Just My Type.