{"id":4304,"date":"2025-10-23T02:32:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.melanievote.com\/?page_id=4304"},"modified":"2025-10-23T13:14:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:14:35","slug":"we-were-never-here-kaliner-gallery-ny","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/melanievote.com\/index.php\/we-were-never-here-kaliner-gallery-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"We Were Never Here, Kaliner Gallery, NY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We Were Never Here<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kaliner Gallery, NY<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

This exhibition weaves together five distinct narratives to explore the porous boundary between presence and absence, and the layered simultaneity of time, and being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Across the exhibition, the artists trace intersecting temporalities\u2014life and death, ritual and myth, growth and decay. The title, We Were Never Here<\/em>, suggests a spectral duality – a presence that is already vanishing or not yet fully arrived. Rather than following a linear narrative, the exhibition drifts through cycles and returns, where transformation is constant and nothing remains fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Installation view (left to right):
What Kind of Loop are We In?<\/i> by Brianna Lance and Place Like Home<\/i>by Melanie Vote<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Melanie Vote\u2019s delicate works contemplate mortality with quiet reverence, portraying nature in states of both entropy and renewal\u2014where decay becomes a form of generative transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Place Like Home, <\/b><\/i>,2016
Oil on Linen on Panel
25 x 16 in<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Overalls, Drawing, <\/i><\/b>2021
Graphite and Watercolor
11 x 8 in
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Waiting (Portrait of Norman Allen Vote 1945-2025), <\/i><\/b>2024
Graphite and Watercolor on Paper
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The predominant themes in Melanie Vote\u2019s work center on time, ecology, and the ephemeral nature of existence. Vote\u2019s layered compositions often carry a haunting resonance. Her work serves as a meditation on impermanence and the transitory nature of human presence. She reminds us that our lives are fleeting, we are temporal, and confronts the inevitability of death\u2014not as an end, but as the Great Unifier\u2014while emphasizing that time moves swiftly and life is brief. Through this lens, her paintings examine what remains and what disappears, probing the deeper question: what traces will we leave behind? At its core, her practice explores existence as a state of continuous metamorphosis\u2014where change is the only constant, and permanence is an illusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We Were Never Here Kaliner Gallery, NY This exhibition weaves together five distinct narratives to explore the porous boundary between presence and absence, and the layered simultaneity of time, and being. Across the exhibition, the artists trace intersecting temporalities\u2014life and death, ritual and myth, growth and decay. The title, We Were Never Here, suggests a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4304","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanievote.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanievote.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanievote.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanievote.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanievote.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4304"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/melanievote.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4325,"href":"https:\/\/melanievote.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4304\/revisions\/4325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanievote.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}