Fethi Meghelli
Primary Medium: Mixed media
Other media: Installation, Printmaking, Drawing, Found material
Studio D, Erector Square
Neighborhood : New Haven: Erector Square
Email: fethimeghelli (at) gmail (dot) com
Website: http://www.fethimeghelli.com
Artist Statement
All my work is about the human condition. For the last two years, I have been mainly focusing on large installations: the "Boat People" series and the "Celebration of Life" series. In order for me to make the installations, I have been doing large drawings, painting, and using found objects.
I have also been painting and drawing on different fabrics, and learning the techniques of assemblage, with surprising and beautiful results.
Other media: Installation, Printmaking, Drawing, Found material
Studio D, Erector Square
Neighborhood : New Haven: Erector Square
Email: fethimeghelli (at) gmail (dot) com
Website: http://www.fethimeghelli.com
Artist Statement
All my work is about the human condition. For the last two years, I have been mainly focusing on large installations: the "Boat People" series and the "Celebration of Life" series. In order for me to make the installations, I have been doing large drawings, painting, and using found objects.
I have also been painting and drawing on different fabrics, and learning the techniques of assemblage, with surprising and beautiful results.
Selected Works
|  A People, Always Fleeing - 2009 - mixed media, collage - 31`" x 42"  Broken Mirrors - 2010 - Mirror pieces, acrylic, mesh, metal on plastic - 72"x49.5"  Of Birds and Bones - 2008 - mixed media / collage - 37" x 25"  In a Thousand Years - 2008 - markers, crayons, pastel, collage - 15"x50"  Sisters - 2009 - charcoal, acrylic, aluminum on satin - 68"x34"  A Tribute to Women - 2009 - charcoal,printing ink,fabric,collage,acrylic - 47.5"x24  Silent Sunrise - 2009 - monotype/crayons - 43.5"x31"  Boy with Horse - 2009 - fabric on paper cut out - 84"x85"  A Night Sky - 2000 - monotype and oil pastels - 44" x 32"  Walking Away - 2010 - acrylic,collage,scratches on plywood - "31.5x21.5"  A Tribute to John Lennon - 2009 - assemblage-found objects - 14" x 14"  The Last King - 2009 - Assemblage-found objects - 20" x 14"  Alien - 2009 - Assemblage-found objects - 19" x 13"  Totem too (detail) - 2009 - Assemblage-found objects - 50" x 12"  Rooster - 2009 - Assemblage-found objects - 17" x 13"  Faceless Beauty - 2009 - Assemblage-found objects - 30" x 15" |
Artist Bio
Fethi Meghelli pursued art studies in Algeria and in France, earning a Master's degree in Fine Arts in 1974 from the Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. He completed advanced studies in printmaking with Robert Blackburn in New York City and at Southern Connecticut State University. He now resides in New Haven.
His art works have been exhibited in solo shows staged at various galleries and academic sites in Connecticut, as well as in Washington, DC, and St. Germain-en-Laye, France. Selections have also been featured in group exhibitions over more than three decades in France, Germany, Austria, Algeria, Japan, and several Eastern European countries, as well as at numerous East coast locations from New York to Boston. His sensitive and expressive works have become part of many private, corporate, institutional, and gallery collections worldwide.
-Johnes Ruta, independent curator