Titans of Modern Music
Paintings 2021-2022
Dan Melchior

40 pp 15.25 x 22.75cm
Color printing
Soft cover
First edition 2023
Published by Hooke + Line
ISBN 979-809879987-0-0
250 copies

Distributed in cooperation with Amish Records

Hooke + Line Press is excited to announce its first title, TITANS OF MODERN MUSIC Paintings 2021-2022 (HL01). TOMM is a selection of 36 portraits by Austin-based artist Dan Melchior from his series of paintings of seminal music figures spanning time and genre.

"As an unrepentant renaissance man, Dan Melchior has long trucked in blood unfit for pudding. He is a master of endurance over abidance, whether it be as a singer of songs, a writer of poems or taster of pies, there are no half measures. Add to that list a painter of peoples, and 'Titans of Modern Music' is a testament to his keen eye & deft stroke. And as a recording artist known for a voluminous body of work, portraiture is the perfect medium for his restive creativity. The subjects are infinite. Please note these are no mere, Sharpie's-in-the-park renderings. Gently run your hand across the rawness of the paper and you can feel the exertion of acrylic and oils. The style is playful yet sincere. The attention to detail, uncanny. Gazing through this select volume, I am reminded of the work of Horace Pippin & Philip Guston at once. Dan says he would like to paint like Lucian Freud. That's funny. So would I."
- Tom Lax, Philadelphia, PA, 2023

Dan Melchior is a musician and artist from London, England currently living in Austin, Texas. He has appeared on over 100 commercially released sound recordings, and exhibited his painting is several American cities.

Hooke + Line is a new Brooklyn-based independent press publishing artists' books and zines.