Paintings and Assemblages by John Mellencamp

On view

September 29 – November 15, 2022

Open Daily, 10am-6pm

Free and open to the public

 

105 & 111 Galleries
New York Academy of Art
111 Franklin Street, NYC 10013

 

 

For inquiries please contact
exhibitions@nyaa.edu

 

Press Release

 

 

Paintings and Assemblages by John Mellencamp

curated by Academy senior critic Dexter Wimberly

 

As his musical career flourished, John Mellencamp began to paint earnestly in 1980 with an early affinity for portraiture influenced by the works of Otto Dix and Max Beckmann. Mellencamp‘s kinship with the German Expressionism of the early 20th century, with its existential focus on the human condition, serves as the foundation for the development of his oeuvre. Mellencamp‘s paintings and assemblages document America’s heart and soul, revealing unsettling but beautiful truths with a kind of anti-establishment frown and a rich sense of narrative. Like his music, Mellencamp’s visual art is carefully composed through the structural requirements of harmony, rhythm and order, and are thematically in line with the small-town, earnest voice of the heartland.

 

View John Mellencamp’s interview with CBS News: