The House of Tomorrow

New Website

2010-06-08T13:04:00.001-07:00

http://nathanmeltz.com

New 7" via Bachelor Records

2010-04-24T16:34:00.000-07:00

While I'm furiously working on completing my MFA these show, Austria's Bachelor Records released our final Cave Weddings 7" vinyl record. You can read an interview with Cave Weddings Erin here.

MotherBoard

2010-03-26T12:54:00.000-07:00

part 1

part2

an 11 minute narrative animation dealing with sex, babies, and scientific intervention. Humor and horrow ensues. In two parts.

Sociological Images

2010-01-11T12:05:00.000-08:00

My good friend Gwen took the time to put up a post about my work on her popular Sociological Images blog.

SUNY Albany ScreenPrinting Studio

2009-11-04T06:26:00.001-08:00

Been putting in alot of work over the last couple months, and now the studio is near completion. I'll be teaching the first ever Screenprinting course in the dept.

RoughCut of the full Chicken Animation

2009-10-23T07:36:00.000-07:00

in two parts, via youtube.

pt1:

pt2:

Been Away

2009-07-25T18:27:00.001-07:00

Summer has been a bit heavy on both the Daddy front, and the music front. My band, The Cave Weddings went on a midwest tour. Now back to the grind.

2009-07-24T05:08:00.000-07:00

the first scene of my new animated short in progress. very much a rough cut, with still quite a few bugs in the sound. this is a very lo-res version posted, since it took forever to post such a long vid. i'll upload a high-res version to sendspace, and can send the link to anyone who wants to download the full thing.

oh, and i just posted a med-res streaming version on youtube

animation detail

2009-03-12T16:50:00.001-07:00

this little guy swims around in the kinetic print do-hickey(posted below).

2009-03-12T16:31:00.000-07:00

recent project coming along. See above post for animation detail.

Storyboard for new project

2009-02-02T12:42:00.000-08:00

This is a sort of digital sketch for a new animation/projection project. Ideally, this work will move around two to three walls of a gallery space, maybe overlapping with other pieces.

Finished, at least for now

2009-01-16T13:37:00.000-08:00

Why I haven't posted in so long

2009-01-07T10:34:00.000-08:00

Been working on this monstrosity. I call it alternately 'the city', 'the monolith', or 'the death star'. Still in progress, and will eventually be placed into the previously posted silver background thingy. The image that includes the flatfiles gives an idea of scale, the other shots are details.

I won an award

2008-11-18T14:38:00.000-08:00

My "O Canola" piece in the K Space Contemporary Third Coast National show won the "2-D merit award".

They sent me a nice cash prize and a Liquitex Artist Acrylic paint set. It came with an apron.

SUNY video festival

2008-11-18T14:36:00.001-08:00

There I am. Nathan Meltzer. My new Alias.

work in progress

2008-11-17T10:06:00.000-08:00

Large wall piece (5 feet x 9 feet) in progress. Will/should be a large overflowing city image of collaged black and white imagery. Thumbnail below.

rough sound-mix

2008-10-03T05:31:00.000-07:00

very lo-res version of the new animation. Untitled so far. Working title is BOOM! Hi-res download here.

Is it flattery to be compared to John Turturro?

2008-09-19T10:51:00.001-07:00

I helped my friend Paolo for a class project. He had to recreate a scene from Barton Fink.

Factory Study

2008-09-09T11:22:00.000-07:00

a very first-drafty study for a longer animation tba

From the Sketchbook

2008-08-19T11:14:00.000-07:00

A first draft of a mechanized chicken. Only so-so about it, and will probably have some other variations eventually.

FENCE SELECT Show in Troy NY

2008-07-28T09:24:00.000-07:00

My pieces Cornpile and Waiting for the Mechanical Bull were chosen to be included in the 2008 Fence Select show at the Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy, NY. The show was juried by Mass MoCA curator Denise Markonish. The show runs throught September 12th.

O Canola! -redux

2008-07-28T08:20:00.000-07:00

Due to popular demand, I've re-editioned my O Canola print. Well, not super popular demand, but the edition sold out, and there has been some further interest in it. So, here it is. Again.

New Print for Troy via Chicago show

2008-07-04T07:11:00.000-07:00

Print promoting a show I'm putting on later this month. Old friends The Fake Fictions from Chicago will be playing at the 51 3rd St. art space here in Troy on Friday, July 25th. They will be playing with another Chicago band called The Prairie Spies, and Albany's Scientific Maps.

GIMME BABY ROBOTS

2008-06-26T08:02:00.000-07:00

I have a collage currently touring in the "gimme baby robots" group show. I guess it's already hit Chicago's Co-Prosperity Sphere and is coming to LA's Echo Curio on June 28th. It moves on to Potland's Igloo after that on July 31st.

Go here for more details.

Introducing: Kismet Press

2008-06-12T05:40:00.000-07:00

Here are some images of the new studio I've been busting my hump over the past couple weeks. We're calling it Kismet Press, as it's located underneath the Kismet Gallery at 71 4th Sreet, Troy NY. We hope to be pulling prints and doing workshops as soon as next week.
Upstairs in the Kismet Gallery right now is a show of political prints.

Same House, different address

2008-05-06T12:28:00.000-07:00

Well, this could come at a better time, but the House of Tomorrow studio is relocating from 53 3rd street in Troy, to 71 4th street in Troy. Due to the possible selling of the building, I'm moving the studio from the back of the Center for Land Use Interpretation Building (aka The Compound Annex) to the basement of Kismet Gallery, which will soon house a multi-use printmaking studio/art studio space. Between the new baby and setting up the new studio, it make be a number of weeks before any new prints. Hope some collages will be up soon....

Oh, and I've just been accepted into the SUNY Albany MFA program with funding, so as soon as this elementary school year is done, it's off to grad school full time for me!

The Newest Project

2008-04-26T06:35:00.000-07:00

Nathan + Abby = Aldo, born April 20, 2008

Further Aldoventures can be followed here

Waiting for my Mechanical Bull

2008-04-08T06:59:00.001-07:00

This image doesn't exactly do the print justice, as the "background" cows are printed in silver ink. They're all sparkly. 5 color print 19"x25". A much larger cow cut-out will be coming at some point. Also, I'll need to start work on the next phase of "Animal Farm". I know Abby's mom is pushing for mecha-chickens.

Grazing Cow

2008-03-11T14:15:00.000-07:00

just a profile-view variation of the original "blank stare" cow.

Cloning Pigs

2008-03-06T06:24:00.001-08:00

From the sketchbook

2008-02-24T13:51:00.000-08:00

My studio-mate Josh Macphee has a couple very large screens, and I'm hoping to make this into some large scale chipboard cut-outs.

new print

2008-02-03T06:36:00.000-08:00

poster for a show i'm setting up for march

from the sketchbook

2008-01-24T16:24:00.000-08:00

this is gonna be part of a big battleroyal of the robots for my "Hudson Valley Smash!" poster for a rock show i'm setting up here in Troy. Just thought this collage was silly enough to merit its own post...

Food for Fuel

2008-01-22T08:03:00.000-08:00

Food for fuel, perhaps not the best idea. Nice related NY Times article here

Some pieces in Toronto show

2008-01-21T08:12:00.000-08:00

At this artists space called the Green Room. All black and white work.

From the Sketchbook

2008-01-04T18:49:00.000-08:00

maybe i can get a jungle/circus themed print going...

Coming Soon....

2007-12-17T08:34:00.000-08:00

The Trojan Pony Tour featuring music and video(i'm playing the drums with the Ross Goldstein group). Just finished the tour poster yesterday. The space left blank under the robot's arm will be for hand written details for individual show info.

And then very soon at the Kismet Gallery in Troy will be the new line of Robot Magnets, which will be available through the Kismet's art vending machine.

2007-12-01T07:48:00.000-08:00

Some Pics from the Art of Musical Mainenance Show in Portland.

Have some pieces in this show in Portland, Opening Nov.29th

2007-11-17T09:37:00.000-08:00

Unfortunately I can't make the opening, but I encourage anyone in the area to check it out. Some good artists in the show, regardless of the titty promo poster.

I can do more than printmaking, really

2007-11-08T12:04:00.000-08:00

Collage that appeared in the zine "Chopshop", put together by Derrick Buish of the UW-Madison Art Department.

First in the Animal Farm Series

2007-11-06T08:20:00.000-08:00

not sure if i prefer the blue-ish green or the straight baby blue background, so i printed some of both.

The House of Tomorrow is Here!

2007-10-23T17:56:00.000-07:00

Hi all. Here's some both older and more recent work. more can be seen here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nathanmeltz

And you can check this stuff out if you're in the upstate ny/metroland/hudson valley/ area at the Kismet Gallery in Troy, NY (71 4th street).

All works are screenprints and can be purchased cheap($20+$5 shipping/handling) by dropping me a line/paypal-ing at smeltz76@yahoo.com