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December Issue 2005
Jerald Melberg Gallery in Charlotte, NC, Features Works by Charles Basham and Donna Phipps Stout
Jerald Melberg Gallery in Charlotte, NC, is presenting two solo exhibitions including: New Pastel Landscapes by Charles Basham and Still Life Poetry by Donna Phipps Stout. Both exhibit are on view through Dec. 23, 2005.
Ohio native Charles Basham has been making
art for over thirty years and has enjoyed much acclaim throughout
his career. This exhibit presents his stimulating and emotionally
charged pastel landscapes.
Spending much time sketching outdoors, Basham has become attuned
to the subtle changes in weather and atmosphere. In his pastels,
the energy and impact of light is realized in harmonized color
whose saturation and temperature have been pushed and raised beyond
previous limits. In doing so, he has captured dramatic and compelling
moments of morning and evening light over the farmlands of the
Midwest and the marshes and beaches of the Lowcountry in South
Carolina.
Jerald Melberg Gallery is also presenting a
solo exhibition of still life paintings by Kentucky native Donna
Phipps Stout. Her atmospheric still lifes, which have garnered
her many loyal and eager collectors, evoke a sense of poetic mystery.
Stout's traditional representations of flowers, fruits and vessels
arranged on linen-draped tabletops suggest that some kind of previous
social interaction has taken place.
Stout says, "Sometimes I want the seemingly random arrangement
of these imperfect objects to hint at the presence of someone
or something just beyond view." The artist believes a good
painting, like a good poem, should allow for investigation, not
just observation.
Stout received her BA from Georgetown College and her MFA from Indiana University. She has been represented in over eighty solo and group exhibitions in the United States and Europe and was honored with a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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