June Issue 1999
Jerald Melberg Gallery - Charleston Features Works by Wolf Kahn & Stephen Scott Young
Jerald Melberg Gallery in Charleston, SC, is hosting a major solo exhibition of southern landscapes by internationally acclaimed artist, Wolf Kahn. This exhibition entitled, Wolf Kahn: Painting The South, is presented in cooperation with the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, GA, and will be the featured exhibition during Spoleto Festival USA. The pieces will be on view through July 3.
The exhibition documents a working visit to rural Georgia and South Carolina near Augusta in the spring of 1998, during which Kahn explored a renewed interest in architectural imagery. Inspired by lush spring vegetation and architectural forms he found in the area, Kahn has created a rich new body of work. The old houses, weathered barns and imposing warehouses of the South are captured as this master landscape painter and colorist saw them.
Kahn was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1927. Arriving in the
United States in 1940, he graduated from the High School of Music
and Art in New York City in 1945. After his discharge from the
Navy, he attended classes at the New School for Social Research
before studying with Hans Hofmann at his School of Fine Art in
New York and receiving his B.A. from the Univ. of Chicago.
Kahn has been honored with numerous awards, including both Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Design, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and has served on the New York Arts Commission. Over the span of his career, Kahn's work has been exhibited in over seventy-five solo exhibitions. His work can be found in over one hundred museum and corporate collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C, and the Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA.
Also on view during the same time frame is a solo exhibition of works by Stephen Scott Young. The exhibit features a fifteen-piece collection of etchings and watercolors.
Although Young has enjoyed much national acclaim for his photorealist style of painting with watercolor, it was the medium of printmaking that he studied at the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, FL. During the spring and summer of 1998, Young returned to etching and has compiled a body of work that shows his mastery of this delicate medium. Many of these recent etchings were executed directly onto the plate on site in the Charleston area. The small editions were then hand pulled by the artist in his studio.
With a style comparable with the American and European Etching Revival periods during the turn of the century, Young manipulates intricate lines and rich plate tone in each crisp impression. In doing so Young captures the essence of the Lowcountry, the tropics, and their young inhabitants with discriminating accuracy that is reminiscent of J.A.M. Whistler and his contemporaries.
Young's work can be found in numerous public and corporate collections including Harpo, Microsoft, the Arkansas Arts Center, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Kemper Museum of Art and the Norton Museum of Art.
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