Opening Reception: First Friday Gallery Walk, March 6, 6-10pm

(Visual Art/Printmaking)
Location: Artspace, Upfront Gallery
 
Bruce Melkowits’ exhibition, Illusions, With Respect, features kallitypes -- images resulting from an antique photographic printing process. Kallitypes require large negatives, which are contact printed. Melkowits has been following and testing the vagaries of this process to explore what art does – express the universal in the particular.
 
Melkowits is most attracted to organic forms. He works slowly, deliberately, and intuitively. The kallitype method is well-suited to Melkowits’ style of work, as the equipment and process requires attention at every step. When creating images he values understatement, reducing his images to the barest essentials. Melkowits enjoys seeing how little is needed to create an image that resonates. Each image is the culmination of a slow construction in addition to the record of a given moment.
 
Melkowits’ work has been exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally. In North Carolina his work has been included in numerous juried, group, and solo exhibitions including at the Durham Art Guild, Durham; the Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville; the Raleigh Fine Arts Society Exhibition, Meredith College, Raleigh; Points of View Gallery, Raleigh; Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro; and the Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. Internationally, Melkowits’ work has been exhibited in Ontario, Canada, as well as Pingyao, Beijing, Shanghai, and Wuhan, China.