Fern Trophy

Fern Trophy
$70-$75 each

Only 3 available!

Check Out Brooklyn365

Check out the recent coverage of Kill Devil Hill on Brooklyn365
and the beautiful photos taken
by Todd W. Shaffer

Old Time Drink Night

Now in the Art Salon

Crocodile Hanging from Ceiling, France, 2010

Oil 12" x 16"

$360. (sold)

Pigeons in a Chandelier, India, 2010

Oil 12" x 16"

$360.

Chicken Tied in Alley, Mexico, 2010

Oil, 8" x 8"

$210. (sold)

Five Pig Heads, Dominican Republic, 2009

Acrylic and Oil, 8" x 10"

$300.

Sausage and Meat, Dominican Republic, 2009

Acrylic and Oil, 18" x 24"

$780.

Currently on the walls of our Art Salon, The Widows Watch

Vacation Photo Paintings by Melanie Jelacic

you can see more of her work at

www.melaniejelacic.com

What's Cooking in Levi Country

BILL'S BEER ROLLS

3 c. sifted self rising flour

1 16oz. can of beer

1/4 c. sugar

Mix ingredients. Blend well. Spoon into prebuttered, warm muffin pan. Pop into preheated oven (to 350 degrees) for 20 minutes

Bill Wallis

Ramer, Tennessee

What's Cooking in Levi Country

Sweet Loven

Check out

this super

cute blog

and lovely photos

of

Kill Devil Hill

Simply click on

image

and the

interweb will

carry you

there.

MELANIE JELACIC : Vacation Photo Paintings

Opening Reception :
July 14th 6pm-9pm


On View :
July 14th - August 14th



We are proud to present works of Melanie Jelacic as the second of many on
going solo shows in our newly designed Art Salon: Vacation Photo Paintings.

Vacation Photo Paintings is a series of paintings made from photographs lent
from friends. The rules being: 1. Has to a vacation snap shot 2. The image
must have an animal or animal based product in a human created setting 3.
The image should be almost monochromatic. I am interested in people
continuing interest to collect uncommon images. All these images have a feel
of being wild/natural but all take place in controlled human environments.

Melanie Jelacic's Brooklyn studio is small but eyes wonder; hanging canvases
of different degrees of finish are mixed upon her collection of art, insects,
and fauna. Melanie Jelacic's sculptural and painterly environments create
an intimate correspondence between the organic and the man-made, the
zoological and the sociological, the historical and mythological, high-art and
the every-day. The effect of her work is less akin to the taxonomic order of
the contemporary sense than to the Renaissance Wunderkammer, or wonder-
cabinet, where the order of oddity prevailed and nature's anomalies were
casually but deliberately allied with the marvels of new technology. In these
quixotic private collections, select earthly artifacts were displayed together in
relationships that exposed their unlikely likeness and unexpected strangeness.
Similarly, Jelacic's materially eclectic and broadly allusive pieces function like
small, personal collections, or curated worlds; in them, familiar methods of
knowing produce newly clarifying results, and so-thought well-known objects
are endowed with a sense of interior life, at once elegantly unfathomable
and imaginatively evocative. In discussion with the artist about her art the
conversation is deeply rooted in science but always emerges to become
emotional and nonsensical. The constant pendulum between fact and fantasy
keeps her ideas in motion.

Melanie Jelacic is a long time resident of Brooklyn and her studio is presently
in Bushwick, Brooklyn. This is her first solo show. See more of her work online
at www.melaniejelacic.com


The Art Salon at Kill Devil Hill 170 Franklin St. Brooklyn NY