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September Issue 2006
Jerald Melberg Gallery in Charlotte, NC, Features Works by Robert Motherwell
Jerald Melberg Gallery
in Charlotte, NC, is honored to present its fourth solo exhibition,
The Torn Edge, featuring works by Robert Motherwell, on
view from Sept. 9 through Oct. 14, 2006. The exhibit explores
the artist's fascination with various papers and the collage medium
and includes over twenty unique collages and related prints.
For Motherwell collage was a very direct, personal statement. Torn or cut bits of wine labels, cigarette packages, catalogues or posters are sometimes incorporated into the work - not simply fragments of printed matter, but fragments of Motherwell's life - the wine he drank, the brand of cigarettes he smoked for forty years.
In the 1940s, Motherwell (1915-1991) became the youngest member of a group of artists known as the Abstract Expressionists. Motherwell rejected conventional realism and explored a reality that went beyond the recognizable image.
With a career that spanned half a century, Motherwell has been represented in countless museum and gallery exhibitions. His first major retrospective was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1965. Since that time he has been honored with retrospectives by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, among many others.
For further information
check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at
704/365-3500 or at (www.jeraldmelberg.com).
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