Robert Mielenhausen: A Life of Art A film by Peter Scheer/Pilotlight Films

“My art is a process of continual change and development. It speaks to a synthesis of intimate spaces and structural forms. The compositions are both literal and abstract, stepping outside the realms of trend and sensationalism. The work embraces a sense of past and present, stillness and motion, the remembered and forgotten.”

Robert Mielenhausen


ARTIST BIO


Robert Mielenhausen’s work explores the convergence of photography and representational painting. Photography is the primary element of inspiration and a source for the artist’s work. Mielenhausen creates utilizing a mixed-media of textural materials, photography, and representational painting derived from his photographs of urban landscapes. As a graduate student at Adelphi University on Long Island he studied painting under Richard Vaux and was graduate assistant to Milton Goldstein in printmaking. Robert graduated from The New York Institute of Technology in New York earning a BFA and Adelphi University completing a Master’s Degree in Studio in Art in 1979. He went on to teach art and art history at Southampton High School retiring in 2006. The artist’s work resides in numerous private, corporate, and educational institutions collections. Placements include: Standard Motor Company, New York, Daytona College, Palm Coast, FL., Adelphi University, New York, The City of Palm Coast FL. He has been reviewed and his exhibits featured in the New York Times. His work has been published in the Lumina Journal of Sarah Lawrence College and reviewed in AM New York Magazine. Robert’s exhibitions highlights are OK Harris Works of Art, Onward Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, Islip Art Museum, Amsterdam Whitney International Fine Art, Project Artspace, and Architectural Digest Design Shows. The artist was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1951. His family moved to suburbia in that year. Robert resides with his family on the South Shore of Long Island where he also maintains his studio.


REPRESENTATION: Tilting at Windmills Gallery, Manchester Vermont , Project:Artspace New York, NY.


“My art is a process of continual change and development. It speaks to a synthesis of intimate spaces and structural forms.

The compositions are both literal and abstract, stepping outside the realms of trend and sensationalism.

The work embraces a sense of past and present, stillness and motion, the remembered and forgotten.”

Robert Mielenhausen

Robert Mielenhausen


EDUCATION:

New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, NY. BFA Adelphi University, Garden City, NY. Master of Studio Art Teacher of Art, Southampton High School, Southampton, NY.

AFFILIATIONS:

Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2022          Project ARTspace “ A Sense of Place” curator Kevin Sudeith, New York, NY.
2021         Southern Vermont Arts Center “Urban Reflections” Manchester, VT
2018    Alfred Van Loen Gallery “ Street Smart” curated by Deborah Katz, South Huntington NY.
2017    Project Art Space, “Urban Perspectives” curated by Michael Yi. NY.NY.
2016    Southern Vermont Arts Center, Yester House Gallery, “Urban Perspectives”.Manchester, VT.
2014   Midoma Gallery, “Streets and Fragments”. NY.NY. The Tai Group, “Bike Works”. NY.NY.
2013   Viridian Artists Inc., “Bike Works”. NY.NY.
2011  

Cold Spring Harbor Library, “Rome”. Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
Saint Joseph’s College, “Rome” curated by Dawn Lee. Patchogue, NY.

2011   Viridian Artists Inc., “Rome” Wall Reliefs NY. NY.
Cold Spring Harbor Library, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
2010   Martin Lerman Gallery, “Rome”. Huntington, NY.
2009   Patchogue Theatre for The Performing Arts, Patchogue, NY.  “Bikes Drive Us”
2007   Alfred Van Loen Gallery, “Urban Archaeology Series” Curated by Stan Brodsky. Huntington Station, NY.
2006   Adelphi University Manhattan Center, “Urban Archaeology” curated by Richard Vaux. NY. NY.
2005   Cold Spring Harbor Art Center Gallery, “Mixed-media works by Robert Mielenhausen”. Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
2001   B.J. Spoke Gallery, Huntington, NY.  “Organic Matter” “New Paintings”
2000   Michael Peter Hayes Gallery, East Norwich, NY. “Transcendence”
1999   Prism Gallery, Port Jefferson, NY. “Portals and Visitations”
1980   Water Mill Museum, Water Mill, NY.  “Still Life and Interiors”
1979   Adelphi University, Garden City, NY.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2023                   2023 Omni Gallery Nine Long Island Painters, Curator Dawn Lee Uniondale, NY.
2022                   Southampton Cultural Center “The Art of the City” Curated by Michael McLaughlin Southampton, NY
2021 Islip Arts Council Gallery “Facing Our Future” Bayshore, NY.
2020 MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art Long Island “Patchworks” Curator, Mary Cantone
2019 Alex Ferrone Gallery. “Spring Into Collecting”. Cutchogue, NY.
Flagler County Art League Gallery “Four Person Show”. Palm Coast, FL.
Southern Vermont Arts Center, Yester House Gallery, “Autumn Angles” Juried Exhibition. Jurors: Leslie Van Breen, Joshua Farr. Manchester, VT. Islip Art Museum, Inaugural Members Exhibition. East Islip, NY.
2018 Viridian Artists.“50th Anniversary Exhibition”. New York, NY.
Southern Vermont Arts Center, Yester House Gallery, Juried exhibition “Vantage Point”. Manchester, VT.
Alex Ferrone Gallery, “Urbanesque”. Cutchogue, NY.
Islip Art Museum, Open Call “The Art of Meditation” curator Seung Lee. East Islip, NY.
2017    Southern Vermont Art Center, Yester House Gallery, Manchester, VT.
2016    Omni Gallery, Uniondale, NY.
Salvo Gallery, Bunnell, FL.
2015    Flagler County Art League Gallery, Palm Coast, FL
Ceres Gallery, NY.NY.  “Bike Works”
Southern Vermont Arts Center National Fall Open, Manchester, VT Juror David Miller
Gallery North, Setauket, NY “Holiday Exhibition”
2014   Hollingsworth Gallery, Palm Coast, FL.
Islip Art Museum, “Mash Up” East Islip, NY.
Viridian Artists Inc. NY. NY.  “Detritus AT Work” curator Vernita Nemec
2013   Graphic Eye Gallery, Port Washington, NY.
Hollingsworth Gallery, Palm Coast FL.
Patchogue Arts Council Gallery, “Lost Civilizations” curated by John Cino. Patchogue, NY
Omni Gallery, Uniondale, NY
2011   Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY.
2010   Onward Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “The Exhibition, Viridian Artists Present”
Ceres Gallery, NY. NY.
B.J. Spoke Gallery, Huntington, NY. “Artists Invite Artists”
C-2 Gallery, Patchogue, NY.
2009   Viridian Artists Inc., “Seven Artists New Works” curated by Vernita Nemec. NY. NY.
Briarcliffe College, Patchogue Art Biennial, Patchogue, NY.
Ceres Gallery, NY. NY.
The Art Center of Northern New Jersey, National Juried Exhibition, New Milford, NJ.
Curator, Clare Bell, Guggenheim Museum, NY. NY.
2008   Amsterdam Whitney International Fine Art, “Where the Ocean Meets the Sun”. NY. NY.
Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY.
Betty Barker Gallery, Carriage Barn, New Canaan Society of the Arts, New Canaan,CT.
2007   OK Harris Works of Art, “Summer Invitational”. Curator Ivan Karp. NY. NY.
Omni Gallery, “Evocative Spaces of the Familiar”. Uniondale, NY.
ShelterRock Art Gallery, “Light Realms”. Manhasset, NY.
Bayard Cutting Arboretum Gallery, Great River, NY.
Omni Gallery, Uniondale, NY.
Cecily Love Lane Gallery, Mattituck, NY.
2006   Gallery North, “Street Scenes”. Setauket, NY.
Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery, Art League of Long Island 51st
Juried Exhibition Juror, Jennifer Fields, Curator, MOMA, NY. NY.
Gallery 4222, Port Jefferson, NY.  “Winter Invitational”
2005   Adelphi University, “Alumni Exhibition”. Garden City, NY.
B.J. Spoke Gallery, Huntington, NY.
Jade Nectar Gallery, “Selected Works by Lana Santorelli”. Southampton, NY.
Anthony Giordano Gallery, “The Sixth Borough” curated by Kathy Kennedy. Dowling College, Oakdale, NY.
Omni Gallery, “Art and Architecture” curated by Dawn Lee. Uniondale, NY.
2004   Artrium Gallery, Melville, NY.
Gallery 4222, Port Jefferson, NY.
2003   B.J. Spoke Gallery, Huntington, NY.  “Selected Three Person Show”
Omni Gallery, “Weaving With Color” curated by Dawn Lee. Uniondale. NY.
2001 Kleinert-James Art Center Gallery, Woodstock, NY.
1999   Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY.
Southampton Cultural Center Gallery, Southampton, NY. Curator, Arlene Bujese
1984   Hewelett-Woodmere Library, Hewelett, NY. ” Adelphi Alum Exhibition”
1983   The Good Friend Gallery, “Form and Fantasy”. Amagansett, NY.
1982   Firehouse Art Gallery, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY.

ART FAIRS:

2016          Hamptons Contemporary, Southampton, NY
2012-2016   Architectural Digest Home Design Show, “MADE”, NY.NY.
2013   Contemporary Art Fair, NY.NY.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESS RELEASES:

2021          Artscope Magazine “Urban Reflections” Southern Vermont Arts Center, Elayne Clift Sept.-Oct. 2021
2015   Modenus Interior Design Source
Lumina Journal, Sarah Lawrence College, “Saint Vincents”
2013   Architectural Digest
AM New York Magazine. October 16, 2013.
NearFarPhoto, October 31,2013.
Flagler News
Palm Coast Observer, July
2012   The New York Times, April
2008   Tom Pergola Studios
AAAGiclee.com
2005   The Long Islander, May
2004   Suffolk Life, Sept.
2003   The New York Times, “Weaving With Color” by Helen Harrison. September 7.
The New York Times, Long Island, Helen Harrison, May

GALLERY TALKS:

2018          Alex Ferrone Gallery “Urbanesque” September, Cutchogue, NY.
2014   Midoma Gallery, Nov. NY.NY. “The Bicycle As Art”
2013   Hollingsworth Gallery, Aug, Palm Coast, FL. “Bike Works”  “Bike Works Process and Variations”
2012   Saint Joseph’s College, May, Patchogue, NY.” Roman Wall Art, Ancient and Modern”
2011   Viridian Artists Inc. June, NY.NY, “Roman Walls” “If Walls Could Speak”
2008   Princeton Photo Club, Dec. Princeton, NJ. “Photography as Painting”