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Jerald Melberg Gallery is pleased to present new paintings by contemporary realist still life painter, Christopher Clamp. The opening reception will be held at the gallery on Friday evening, April 28, with the artist in attendance from 6-8pm. Coffee & Conversation with the artist will be held on Saturday, April 29, at 11am.

Growing up in Leesville, South Carolina, Clamp spent much of his time combing through odds and ends in his grandfather’s barn, divining stories about their importance and meaning. Now, he sources all manner of vintage objects with nostalgic resonance to compose universal narratives in his own work. His deft abilities with oil paint elevate his subjects beyond pure kitsch and into portrait-like territory.

Clamp says, Objects, no matter how ordinary, hold a magic and a power that can transport us to different times and realms, depending on how they are arranged, used or treated. ‘Far From Home’ also refers to the effect nostalgia can have. Memories can comfort and they can also emphasize how much distance there is between then and now. My hope is that the paintings will cause viewers to engage with their own memories and perhaps be transported.

This exhibition also includes a group of four amazing paintings, commissioned to be used in an upcoming children’s book, titled The Sun Comes Up. The book launch will take place during the April 28 opening and several studies for the commissioned paintings are available for acquisition.

Jerald Melberg Gallery is located at 625 South Sharon Amity Road near the intersection with Providence Road. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 10am to 6pm and Saturday 10am to 4pm. For more information about the exhibition please contact the gallery at 704.365.3000. To view selected works online, visit the gallery website at www.jeraldmelberg.com.

Picasso: Celebrating 50 Years, an exhibition of ceramics and prints by Pablo Picasso, will be on view through May 31 at Rosenbaum Contemporary’s Palm Beach gallery (2 Via Parigi • Worth Avenue). With this exhibition, Rosenbaum Contemporary joins more than 50 museums throughout the world this year in honoring the legacy of Picasso, whose influence on the art world still continues 50 years after his death on April 8, 1973.

Picasso is recognized as one of the leading painters, sculptors and graphic artists of the 20th century. He began making ceramics in the summer of 1946 at the Madoura Pottery in Vallauris, France, and continued to work in the medium until his death in 1973, ultimately creating 633 editions as well as unique ceramic works.

“Ceramics were an integral part of his achievement, which brings a richer perspective to his extraordinary career,” Marvin Rosenbaum said. “These days many collectors find themselves more enthralled with Picasso’s ceramics than any other medium. The rising auction prices can attest to the growing interest in his three-dimensional work, but, due to the fact that many of these works were produced in editions, they are still relatively affordable.”

The prints on view in the exhibition comprise a linoleum cut print poster for the 1962 Exposition Vallauris and an etching from the Vollard Suite, one of Picasso’s most sought-after early print cycles.

Picasso: Celebrating 50 Years can be viewed from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.

Rosenbaum Contemporary, founded in 1979, is based in Boca Raton, Florida. The gallery caters to international collectors interested in investment-quality works by Postwar, Modern and Contemporary masters and presents nationally recognized museum-level exhibitions throughout the year. The gallery also offers a wide range of free services to collectors worldwide including acquisition advice, art consulting, sourcing of artists, art collection building and management and resale of select works of art.

Jerald Melberg Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work in a wide variety of media by Romare Bearden (1911-1988). Although Bearden is best-known for his collages, he was constantly experimenting throughout his career, using various techniques to achieve his artistic goals. Ways of Working, Experiments & Techniques, highlights many of his most frequently used mediums with the goal of providing education about each of his processes. From screenprints and etchings to photo projections and monotypes, this exhibition includes examples of Bearden’s diverse methods of creating editioned and unique works. Many artists never branch out beyond one or two ways of working for fear of clouding their message, but Bearden’s voice was so singular that it could transcend media.

“Rebekah Goldstein: Paintings and Sculpture” is a concentrated survey of Goldstein’s work including her rectangular paintings, sculpture and the shaped canvases she has become known for.

Jerald Melberg Gallery is pleased to present the ninth solo exhibition of abstracted landscape paintings by Brian Rutenberg.

With these new oil paintings on linen and paper, the artist reflects on the duality of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where he was born and raised – a neon resort town full of amusement parks and arcades that happens to be surrounded by some of the most beautiful landscapes on the East Coast. While the Lowcountry continues to have a profound impact on the artist, Rutenberg has lived and worked over half his life in New York City. Rutenberg states, When you put all of those things together, what you get are paintings that belong to their place. I’ve never needed a position because I have a place. I don’t paint South Carolina; I manufacture a place, and South Carolina becomes it.

Brian Rutenberg received a BFA from the College of Charleston and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the College of Charleston and delivered the commencement speech in the spring of 2018. Among his numerous awards and achievements, he is a Fulbright Scholar, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow and an Irish Museum of Modern Art Work Programme Recipient. Since 1985 Rutenberg has been honored with over 100 gallery and museum exhibitions across the United States, including the Hoyt Center for the Arts, Saginaw Art Museum, the Gibbes Museum of Art, Butler Institute of Art and Greenville County Museum of Art.

Jerald Melberg Gallery is located at 625 South Sharon Amity Road near the intersection with Providence Road. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 10am-4pm. For more information about the exhibition please contact the gallery at 704.365.3000.

On view through January 14, 2023, the “Mira Lehr: Arc of Nature” exhibition includes never-before-exhibited mixed media works by artist Mira Lehr as well as works featured in the recently published Skira Editore monograph of the same title. The works can be viewed during regular gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Jerald Melberg Gallery is pleased to officially welcome American artist Tula Telfair to Charlotte. An exhibition of her imagined landscape paintings will be presented in the artist’s inaugural solo exhibition with the gallery. A full color catalogue has been published for the occasion. The opening reception will be held at the gallery on Friday evening, October 28, with the artist in attendance from 6-8pm. There will also be a Coffee and Conversation artist lecture led by Telfair at the gallery Saturday, October 29, at 11am.

Although none of the subjects is literal, the powerful images Telfair recollects from her childhood and extensive travels inform each painting she creates. Throughout her career, Telfair has conceived all her landscape subjects from vivid imagination; remembering places she may have visited, or that may not actually exist. Her landscapes are lush and romantic, showing us the sublime grandeur of these fantastical places conjured with exceptional detail. Abrams Books published a monograph on Tula Telfair’s work entitled Invented Landscapes with Essays by Henry Adams, J. Michael Fay and Michael Roth in 2016.

Tula Telfair, a resident of Old Lyme, Connecticut, is a professor of Art at Wesleyan University in Middletown. Since 1978, her work has been exhibited at museums from Pennsylvania to California and galleries from New York to Sri Lanka. Telfair’s paintings may be found in numerous museum and public collections.

Jerald Melberg Gallery is located at 625 South Sharon Amity Road. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 10am to 6pm and Saturday 10am to 4pm. For more information about the exhibition please contact the gallery at 704.365.3000. To view works online, visit the gallery website at www.jeraldmelberg.com.

Jerald Melberg Gallery proudly presents new abstract paintings by gallery artist Katherine Boxall. Intelligent Abstraction II is Boxall’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Melberg states, Continuing the title from Boxall’s first exhibition with my gallery was important to me, as I am still struck by the intelligence of her abstract paintings. Recent travels across Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho and New Mexico as her muse, Boxall captures the distinctive colors, textures, and atmosphere of these changing environments. Boxall says, The works are inspired by our travels, our first road trip the summer of 2020 and now this more recent trip at the beginning of 2022. The water, the mountains, the heat and the cold. With thoughts of home and separation, Boxall puts to canvas the emotional response of being present in new surroundings while recalling familiar places to which one longs to return.

A native of Ottawa, Canada, Katherine Boxall holds a BFA from Queens University at Kingston and a MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She constructs abstract paintings that are expressive and intelligent. Incorporating a mix of materials, Boxall’s canvases exude conviction, energy, and knowledgeable composition. In writing about her work, Jennifer Sudul Edwards, Chief Curator and Curator of Contemporary Art at The Mint Museum, states, Katherine Boxall explores this possibility of transferring the unconscious onto her canvases through a more automatic practice, trying to loosen her conscious control of her arm as she draws her compositions onto her canvases. Modulating and modifying those initial marks, she reworks them into complicated compositions that balance the intuitive and the intentional, until she achieves mélange of the two concepts.

Boxall has received numerous awards and honors, including the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Artist Grant and The San Francisco Art Institute MFA Presidential Fellowship. Her work has been exhibited across Canada, Australia, and the United States, including a solo exhibition at the Mint Museum of Art.

“Thomas Hartmann: Works on Paper” will feature small oil paintings, gouaches and mixed media works on paper by German artist Thomas Hartmann. The works cover a variety of themes, including birds, figures and waterscapes, as well as the chaotic stacks of books and tiny figures positioned in landscapes painted from birds-eye views that Hartmann is known for.

Hartmann’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at prestigious institutions including the Museum Ratingen, the Kunsthalle Erfurt, the Kunsthalle Rostock, the Museum of Modern Art of Bremen, the Görlitz Museum of Cultural History, the Heidelberger Art Association, the Neubrandenburg Art Collection, the Oldenburger Kunstverein and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Siegen in Germany.

The works can be viewed during regular gallery hours, Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., as well as on the gallery’s website www.rosenbaumcontemporary.com.

Jerald Melberg Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings and works on paper depicting landscapes, cityscapes and flora seen in America, as well as abstract interpretations of American scenes.

The works in this exhibition illustrate the artists’ varying approaches to creating their art: literal or suggestive representations of a landscape, a directly observed and rendered flower or an impressionistic view of an American city.

Artists featured in the exhibition include John Alexander, Jesse Redwin Bardin, Charles Basham, Romare Bearden, Oscar Bluemner, William Partridge Burpee, Lee Hall, Wolf Kahn, Robert Kushner, Thomas McNickle, Roland Poska, Brian Rutenberg, Richard Stenhouse and Tula Telfair.

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