MARCIO MELO

SOLD "Muse, Birds and Movement" 30 x 24 Acrylic $875.00		SOLD "Muse in Repose" 30 x 24 Acrylic $875.00		"Studio with Piano and Mandolin" 36 x 48 Acrylic $1,800.00

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Marcio Melo is a figurative painter.  His painting can be characterized as bold and colourful, ranging from stylized to realistic.  He typically works from imagination and his themes run from Brazilian Candomble Saints to Canadian wildlife and everything in between.  The paintings typically include people or animals, often with fantastic or spiritual imagery as elements.  Marcio works in watercolour, acrylics, oils and crayon conte.  He works mainly on paper and canvas.  Often he hand paints the frames, matching them to the painting, or sometimes the painting extends into the area of the frame.

Marcio is well known in the Ottawa area.  He has appeared on the CBC television show Rockburn and Company, and has several feature articles in the Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa XPress, Ottawa Sun, Zone Outaouais, The Equity, The Pontiac Journal, The West Quebec Post and The Aylmer Bulletin.  Marcio was also at the centre of a controversy at his show at the NCC Visitor's  Centre in Gatineau Park (1997) when seven paintings from his show were deemed unsuitable by the NCC and were removed.  The outpouring of indignation about the censorship and support for his art from the public was overwhelming.

He has exhibited at his home studio in Quyon, in the Ottawa area, in Brazil and in Germany.  He is represented in galleries in Quebec, Ontario, the USA, and Germany.  Marcio's paintings are in corporate and private collections in Canada, the USA, Brazil, France, England, Italy, Portugal, China, Germany and Switzerland.  Marcio's work can be viewed at any of his associated galleries, and he welcomes visitors to his studio in Quyon, Quebec.  "Victory", his latest major exhibition, was exhibited in at the Hull Casino in the fall of 2001.

Marcio came to Canada from Brazil in 1987.  He feels comfortable with the languages and culture, and has made Canada his home.  In Brazil Marcio worked in architecture and design, mainly in heritage preservation in the four-century-old cities of Recife and Olinda.

Marcio currently serves as the President of the Pontiac Artist's Studio Tour Association.

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

• Prelude to the Pontiac, with artists of the Pontiac Artists' Studio Tour, Somerset Village Gallery, 347 Somerset Street West, Ottawa, Ontario, May 4 - June 30, 2002

• Marcio Melo Studio, 8 the Twelfth Line, Quyon, Quebec, watercolours and acrylics

• Ottawa Art Gallery - Art Rental & Sales, Arts Court, 2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, watercolours, crayon conte, acrylics

• Galerie Le Corbeau Bleu, 105 chemin Valley, Wakefield, Quebec, watercolours, crayon conte, acrylics

• The Roslin Gallery, Highway 37, Roslin, Ontario, acrylics, watercolours in painted frames

• Cores e Flores, Chateau Cartier Resort, Aylmer, Quebec, watercolours

• Osta Galerie, Stiftsherrenstrabe 11, 5170 Julich, Germany, watercolours, crayon conte, acrylics

• Le Chateau Design, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, U.S.A., acrylic and crayon conte on paper

FUTURE EXHIBITIONS

• Marcio Melo at the Ottawa International Airport, Ottawa, Ontario, August 1 - September 31, 2002, acrylics - Pontiac Artists' Studio Tour, Marcio Melo Studio, Quyon, Quebec, June 8, 9 & 15, 16, 2002, watercolours and acrylics - Bleu, Rouge et Vert Egal, Sky Complex, 1474 Ste-Catherine Street East, Montreal, Quebec, June 29 - August 2, 2002, acrylics

• 2 Weekends in August, August 10, 11 & 17, 18, 2002, Marcio Melo Studio, 8 the Twelfth Line, Quyon, Quebec, watercolours and acrylics

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS

• Out of the Pontiac, (with Valerie Bridgeman, Sarah Marshall and Dale Shutt), Elisabeth Bruyere Clinic, 43 Bruyere Street, Ottawa, December 13, 2001 - March 13, 2002

• Marcio Melo at the Ottawa International Airport, Ottawa, Ontario, November 1, 2001 - January 31, 2002

• Victory, The Hull Casino, Hull, Quebec October 5, 2001 - January 10, 2002

• FLAMENCO, The Somerset Village Gallery, 347 Somerset Street West, Ottawa, Ontario, August 1 - 31, 2001

• 2 Weekends in August, August, 2001, Marcio Melo Studio, 8 the Twelfth Line, Quyon, Quebec, watercolours and acrylics

• Pontiac Artists' Studio Tour 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, Marcio Melo Studio, Quyon, Quebec, watercolours and acrylics

• Ideal in Waterloo, La Maison de la culture de Waterloo, Waterloo, Quebec, April 1 - 28, 2001

• Ideal, Chateau Cartier Resort, 1170 chemin Aylmer, Aylmer, Quebec, December 5, 2000 - February 9, 2001

• Timeless Eyes - The Vision of Three Figurative Artists, Sante Restaurant / Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, July 24 - October 21, 2000

• Marcio Melo On Somerset at Bank, Somerset Street at Bank, Ottawa, Ontario, August 17 - September 30, 2000

• 4 Weekends in August, On weekends in LAugust, 1999, 2000, Marcio Melo Studio, 8 the Twelfth Line, Quyon, Quebec, watercolours and acrylics

• Ten Years After, Ottawa City Hall Foyer, 111 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, April 22 - May 2, 1999

• Pot Pourri, Ottawa International Airport, Ottawa, Ontario, November 3, 1998 - February 3, 1999, Acrylic on canvas

• Marcio Melo Framed, Belleville Public Library Gallery, Belleville, Ontario, December 3 - 31, 1998

• Singular Pieces, The Mud Oven, 1065 Bank Street, Ottawa, Ontario, October 20 - November 29, 1998, Acrylics and watercolours

• Intimate Works, September 3 - October 31, 1998, Chateau Logue, Maniwaki, Quebec, small watercolours with painted frames

• Drama, Solo show at Chateau Cartier Resort, Aylmer, Quebec, May 22 - September 7, 1998, Acrylic on canvas with painted frames

• Picasso to Pottery, The Mud Oven, 1065 Bank Street, Ottawa, Ontario, May 10 - June 21, 1998, Ceramic

• A Taste of the Tour, Ottawa City Hall Foyer, 111 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, April 28 - May 12, 1998

• Mixed Societies, Ottawa City Hall Foyer, 111 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, October 7 - November 6, 1997

• Artists in Their Environment Studio Tour, NCC Visitors Centre, Old Chelsea, Quebec, September, 1997

• Aylmer's 150th Anniversary, Parc de l'Imaginaire, Aylmer, Quebec, June, July, August, 1997, sculpture, painted furniture

• Voyage Pittoresque au Bresil, collaboration with Marie-France Nitski, February 20 - March 6, 1997, Sala Rene Ribeiro, Fundacao Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brazil, mixed media on paper

• Our New Land...Our Roots, Ottawa-Carleton Regional Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, December 2 - 13, 1996, acrylics

• Graphische Impressionen, Osta Galerie, Julich, Germany, November 17 - December 2, 1996, watercolours, acrylic and crayon conte

• Marcio Melo Toiles - Canvasses, Solo Exhibition at cafe/restaurant L'agaric, Old Chelsea, Quebec, July 12 - October 14, 1996, acrylic on canvas

• Marcio Melo Unframed, Solo Exhibition, Marcio Melo Studio, Quyon, Quebec, May 3 - 12, 1996, unframed watercolours, acrylics and crayon conte

• Rockburn and Company, CBC Ottawa, October 30, 1995, television interview

• Aquatica, Solo Exhibition at La Galerie d'art Jacar, 103 rue Principale, Aylmer, Quebec, April 6 - 23, 1995, crayon conte and watercolour

• O Unico dos Quinze-One Out of Fifteen, Solo Exhibition, Galeria Lula Cardosa Ayres, Recife, Brazil, February 3 - 25, 1994, acrylic on canvas & paper

• Marcio Melo - Summertime Hues, Solo Exhibition at the Fort Gallery, Quyon, Quebec, July 31 - August 9, 1993, watercolours and acrylics

• Marcio Melo - Winter Dreams, Solo Exhibition, L'echelle de Jacob, Aylmer, Quebec, Feb. 24 - March 22, 1993, acrylic on paper

• Marcio Melo - The Show He Never Gave, Solo Exhibition at The Gallery Cafe, Charteris, Quebec, August 11 - August 16, 1992, "The Brazilian Saints" series of fingerpaints on paper, watercolours and mixed media on furniture

• Pontiac Wool Works, Lang Street, Shawville, Quebec, June, 1997 - June 1998, watercolours and reproductions in painted frames - Galerie l'art de l'epoque, 103, rue Principale, Aylmer, Quebec, October, 1994 - July 1998, watercolours, acrylics - Borealis Gallery, 263 Dalhousie Street, Ottawa, Ontario, December, 1992 - May, 1994, watercolours, mixed media