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April Issue 2003
Jerald Melberg Gallery in Charlotte, NC, Features New Works by Brian Rutenberg and Mask by Milton Bloch
Jerald Melberg Gallery in Charlotte, NC, will present two new exhibitions, Woodsongs New Painting, featuring works by Brian Rutenberg and, Mask From Imaginary Tribes, featuring works by Milton Bloch. Both exhibitions begin on Apr. 5 and continue through May 10, 2003.
Brian Rutenberg
Brian Rutenberg makes unique landscape paintings with an impasto surface that is vibrant and lush. A South Carolinian now residing in New York City, Rutenberg's inspiration for these intensely colored, atmospheric landscapes can be traced back to his fascination with the unique quality of light found on the Lowcountry coast. He says, "Especially inspiring is that point when the land meets the water and, for a moment, the two become blurred."
Rutenberg earned a BFA from the College of Charleston in SC and a MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His work has been represented in over eighty museum and gallery exhibitions across the US and abroad, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Vancouver Museum and the Butler Institute of American Art.
Milton Bloch
Milton Bloch has been making small sculpture for more than fifty years. This exhibition features masks made from objects the artist has collected from old barns and flea markets in rural upstate New York. Although these masks have no intended historical context, they are ascribed to fictional tribes and rituals. As with true artifacts, Bloch says that even when historical reference or symbolism is lost, a certain beauty and power remains preservered in the object through the dedication of the maker.
Bloch holds a degree from Pratt Institute, New York and a MFA from the University of Florida. For fourteen years Bloch was Director of the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte. Since 1991 he has been President of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, NY.
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