DARIO MELLADO
FINE ART & ILLUSTRATION
Dario Mellado Fine Art & Illustration
Los Angeles, CA
ph: 424-236-1288
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Dario Mellado’s body of work includes a fifteen year ongoing study of the “American Suburban Experience”. He focuses on the post second world war suburban explosion and it's global social, political and spiritual implications. His subject matter ranges from; dependency on destructive supportive technology (energy consumption, communication, food production) to what the artist refers to as a “tunnel vision,” where “ …we are tangled in telephone wires and trapped in the glow of the city….a people cut off from a natural existence with more stars on their televisions than in their skies.”
“This whole way of life is one huge experiment. It is not only fragile but dangerously unnatural.” 
Expressing the beauty and controversy of the world around him, Dario Mellado has carved out a strong presence in the Community of Los Angeles as well as in the art world. With a background in social activism including work Coordinating the Independent Living Program in the San Fernando Valley (a vocational program for “at risk youth” and Foster Children) he also worked as a Vocational Counselor/ Advocate for teens with Autism and Aspergers. The time spent working in those programs solidified Mellado’s idea of an artist’s function as a “conscience of society”. He also hosted the Help Group Art Showcase in 2006 including artists Michael Goddard and Luis Beccerra at the Modern Art Gallery in Los Angeles.
Powerful and seductive many of Dario Mellado works have been used in advertisements by local venues and musicians.
Dario Mellado Fine Art & Illustration
Los Angeles, CA
ph: 424-236-1288
dnmellad
