March Issue 2000
Two Solo Exhibitions at Jerald Melberg Gallery in Charlotte, NC
Jerald Melberg Gallery in Charlotte, NC, is pleased to announce two solo exhibitions on view through April 8. The two exhibitions are Thomas Buechner: New Still Life Paintings and Ida Kohlmeyer: Paintings, Sculpture, Prints.
Thomas S. Buechner
Born in 1926, Thomas Buechner is a graduate of the Lawrenceville School. He attended Princeton University and the Art Students League as well as the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Buechner has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as artist, teacher and administrator, having served as the founding director of The Corning Museum of Glass, Director of The Brooklyn Museum, President of Steuben Glass and President of The Corning Glass Works Foundation.
Buechner is a realist painter who always works
from direct observation. When choosing his objects, he looks for
their intrinsic visual appeal and their contribution of form and
color to the overall composition. He has a fine eye for how the
world appears, for recognizing and rendering enough detail to
persuade, but not so much as to overwhelm. Through his attention
to formal concerns - composition, paint application and surface
textures - the ordinary is transformed into something finer and
more enduring.
Thomas Buechner has had over forty solo exhibitions, this being
his second at Jerald Melberg Gallery. His work can be found in
such prestigious public collections as The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, The National Museum of American Art and The Brooklyn Museum.
Ida
Kohlmeyer
The second solo exhibition is of the paintings, sculpture and prints of Ida Kohlmeyer. In 1933, Ida Kohlmeyer received her B.F.A. in English literature from Tulane University. Her interest in art began during her honeymoon in Mexico, where she was drawn to the ceramic folk art and masks of Central and South America. In 1956 she returned to her alma mater to earn a master's degree in painting.
After graduating from Tulane, Kohlmeyer spent her summer painting with the New York School painter Hans Hofmann. For more than a decade she worked primarily in a gestural style influenced by Hofmann and other Abstract Expressionists, including Arshile Gorky and Mark Rothko, whom she met during her time in New York.
Kohlmeyer eventually outgrew the influences of Hofmann, Rothko and many others, took what she had learned and developed a substance to her work that was her own. Her work embodies floating ranks of emblems and scribbled marks that suggest a private alphabet: a direct and emotional transcript that is unique, yet also an extension of the "automatic writing" techniques of the Surrealists and Abstract Expressionists.
Although she did not begin painting full time until she was in her mid-thirties, Kohlmeyer's work has been represented in well over 100 solo exhibitions, including a major retrospective at the Mint Museum of Art. Her work is in the permanent collections of over 80 institutions, including The High Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum and The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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