Melita Cekani is an NYC-based artist that finds inspiration in diversity, cultural heritage, and personalities.

Melita adds three-dimensionality to paintings, by sculpting the oil paint and manipulating its thickness on the canvas.

Melita manifests a unique innovation of painting technique, brought up by her and named “CEKANISM”.

“Çekan” translates to “hammer” in Albanian, Melita’s native language and background. In a figurative manner, she treats her paintings as sculptures, and carves or sculpts the oil paint using her brush, as one would use a hammer and chisel to make a sculpture.

Melita’s paintings are recognized for the extensive use of Impasto, taken to another level. She makes her art almost 3D with the oil paint sticking out of the canvas and the paint being elevated up to one full inch from the canvas’s level.

Melita’s Mission

Through visual art to empower diversity, cultures, unwritten wisdom, collections of stories, non-promoted places and, traditions. To sculpt her canvases in themes that the media does not reach. To bring the forgotten to life and to make the unheard, heard of.

“The world is endless. So are the colors.” -M.C