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May Issue 2005
Jerald Melberg Gallery in Charlotte, NC, Features Works by Chuck Close and Rick Horton
The Jerald Melberg Gallery in Charlotte, NC, is presenting two solo exhibitions including: Face to Face, featuring etching, woodcuts and screenprints by the critically acclaimed artist Chuck Close and The Angel Wing, featuring sculpture and works on paper by NC native Rick Horton. Both exhibitions are on view through May 28, 2005.
Chuck Close
Chuck Close, born in 1940 in Washington State, has emerged as one of the most important artists of our time. He is best known for the monumental heads he has systematically and laboriously painted in thousands of minuscule airbrush bursts, thumbprints, or circular brushstrokes. Close has also executed his one subject - the human face - through printmaking, using various innovative techniques to achieve distinctive portraits of family members and friends, as well as himself. "Prints have moved me in my unique work more than anything else has," Close says. "Prints change the way I think about things."
Close received a BA in Art, magna cum laude, from the University of Washington in 1962. Then in the two years following, he received a BFA and MFA with highest honors from Yale. Although Close is not a prolific painter, his work can be found in many prestigious institutions such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, among others.
Face to Face coincides with the exhibition, Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration, on view at the Mint Museum of Art through Aug. 7, 2005.
Rick Horton
Few works of art are as meditative as the paintings of Rick Horton (1954-1990). He always reached down to his most inner self when painting, going almost to another state of being. This exhibition focuses on the only major piece of sculpture made by the artist and the over twenty studies relating to it.
Horton achieved great sucess in his lifetime, participating in over sixty gallery and museum exhibitions, as well as being collected by institutions such as the Asheville Museum of Art, Duke University Museum of Art, the Mint Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others.
For further information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 704/365-3000 or at (www.jeraldmelberg.com).
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