NEWSLETTER
January 24 through February 24, 2024
Lake George, N.Y. – Nathan Meltz: The Utopia Machine features sizzling, vibrant imagery that, in the artist’s words, represent “…the infiltration of technology into every facet of our lives, from family and food to politics and war. Nightmarish industrial creations are set against images of grand mechanical constructions, an off-kilter vision of technology. In my visual vocabulary, the contemporary world of nanotechnology and genetic modification is retrofitted with collaged analog machine parts. Collages of mechanical humanoids and animals turn into printmaking, animation, and sculpture, as I create visual narratives telling the story of a doomed robotic populace in a techno-dystopia.”
Meltz is Senior Lecturer in the Department of the Arts at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and the founder and curator of the Screenprint Biennial.
His solo exhibitions include the gallery at Atelier Presse Papier, Trois-Rivières, Canada, the Shircliff Gallery at Vincennes University, Indiana, Southern Illinois University’s Vergette Gallery, GRIDSPACE (NYC), the University of Florida – Jacksonville’s Andrew Brest Gallery, and Noise Gallery (OH). His international exhibitions include the International Print Center New York, the 16th International Printmaking Triennial Graphica Creativa Triennial, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland, the Museum of Modern Art in Rio De Janiero, Brazil, and more. His art has been featured in publications including Art in Print, Printeresting, and the Mid America Print Council Journal. His series “Strangling the Fascist Viper” has received juror awards from the Louisiana International Printmaking Exhibition and the Political Impressions exhibition at the Rochester Institute of Technology, the Printworks Award from Artists Image Resource, Pittsburgh PA, and the Prix de Print award from Art in Print Magazine.
His current body of research involving ecologies has been included an article published in the California Society of Printmakers Journal and exhibited in many venues, including the Four Rivers Printmaking Biennial, where he was awarded an honorable mention award and the Trois-Rivières International Printmaking Biennial, Canada, where he was given the Prix de Presse Papier award.
The Courthouse Gallery is located in the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, on Lower Amherst Street in Lake George, NY. During scheduled exhibitions our in-person office and gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday
12 – 4 pm.
If you would like to visit exhibitions outside of Gallery hours or request a tour for a group, please contact June Waters, Director of Exhibitions, at june@lakegeorgearts.org.
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Image: Vessel, 2022, Screenprint over three sheets of yupo paper, 66" x 37"
Artist’s Reception:
Saturday, January 27, 2024
4:00 – 6:00 PM
Sunday Arts
Sunday, February 4, 2024
Gallery Open 1:00 – 4:00
Gallery Tour and Art Making
for all ages
Contact:
June Waters
Director of Exhibitions
518-668-2616
june@lakegeorgearts.org