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September Issue 2004
Jerald Melberg Gallery in Charlotte, NC, Features Works by Ida Kohlmeyer and Robert Peterson
The Jerald Melberg Gallery in Charlotte, NC, will present two solo exhibitions including: Ida Kohlmeyer: Paintings, Sculpture and Prints and Robert Peterson: New Pastel Still Lifes. Both exhibitions will be on view from Sept. 11 through Oct. 16, 2004.
Kohlmeyer (1912-1997) was a matriarch among American artists, achieving international acclaim without leaving her native New Orleans. 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 eighty prestigious institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Kohlmeyer's joyful abstract paintings and sculptures reflect the spirit of New Orleans and her long fascination with folk and primitive art. Based on her own developed alphabet of various organic and geometric shapes, the works transpose Kohlmeyer's passions and delights into compact, colorful and celebratory images.
New Mexico artist, Robert Peterson's pastels are quintessential examples of Luminism with their intense drama of light and shade. Their exact and literal representation also places them within the realm of Precisionism. Depicting the play of light across the simplest forms in minimal arrangements, his images possess a mysteriously perceptible air of silence. In doing so they transcend phot-realism to create an emotional response to their shape, texture and existence. Peterson's pastels evoke every sense as the inanimate objects spring to life upon the paper.
Since his first exhibition in 1969, Peterson has been honored with well over one hundred gallery and museum exhibitions across the United States. He is currently represented in numerous public collections including the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe and the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte.
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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