Jerald Melberg Gallery is pleased to present a series of twelve 12-inch square paintings by Chris Clamp. These paintings continue the artist’s explorations of both realism and object portraiture.  For the first time, the exhibition will also include several studies, both in graphite and oil, allowing the viewer to get a sense of the artist’s process from conception to completion.

Chris Clamp has a singular and poignant vision which stems from his love of family, sense of inquisitiveness and keen interest in sometimes quirky, sometimes whimsical, but always personal, objects. The clarity of light and pureness of color that Clamp achieves in his paintings give them a surface that is both beautifully crafted and uniquely his own.

Join us for a virtual Coffee & Conversation with Chris Clamp live streaming on Facebook (@jeraldmelberggallery) and Instagram (@jeraldmelberg) Saturday, August 8, at 11am.

This exhibition of paintings by “blob” artist Mike Hammer is now on view at the Rosenbaum Contemporary gallery, 150 Yamato Road in Boca Raton, Fla. Hammer’s works will remain on exhibit through April 18 and can be viewed during regular gallery hours, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.

Hammer is known for his “blob” paintings, three-dimensional works created by using paint like liquid clay to create circular layers. While each resulting “blob” is an individual object with a unique size, shape and color scheme, each “blob” also works in relation to all of the others to create a unified whole. The resulting paintings are works of pure visual pleasure with paint as both subject and object and contrasting color combinations as visual stimulation.

Hammer’s work has been the subject of articles in “The Toronto Star” and “Los Angeles Times,” among other publications, and can be found in several collections including the Department of Foreign Affairs, New York.

Rosenbaum Contemporary, founded in 1979 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.

Rosenbaum Contemporary is exhibiting sculptures by Venezuelan artist Abigail Varela.

Varela is known for the physical disproportions of his sculptural figures: thin, filiform arms; fine, high necks and small heads contrasted with wide hips. His work has been exhibited in Venezuela, El Salvador, Miami, London and New York.

Rosenbaum Contemporary, founded in 1979, 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.

Lagerfeld: The Chanel Shows, an exhibition of works by fine art photographer Simon Procter, is on view at Rosenbaum Contemporary (150 Yamato Road, Boca Raton, Fla.) through January 25, 2020. The exhibition features photography from Procter’s book of the same name, which was published in September by Rizzoli.

Procter enjoyed unparalleled access to Karl Lagerfeld’s legendary runway shows for Chanel. The works on view provide a glimpse of some of Lagerfeld’s most iconic fashion shows including Chanel Beach, Spring/Summer 2019, Le Grand Palais, Paris, in which models walked along a long, sandy beach lapped by real waves inside Paris’ Grand Palais, and Chanel Ultra Rocket, Fall Winter 2017, Le Grand Palais, Paris, in which a realistic rocket gave the illusion of launching, complete with sparks and smoke, from inside the same venue. The featured works also highlight Procter’s unique aesthetic, which synthesizes his fine art background in painting and sculpture with fashion photography to document the grand scale of runway shows and the architectural spaces in which they take place. More than mere documentation, however, many of the exhibited works illustrate Procter’s intense post-production methods which truly capture the spirit of the ephemeral runway shows.

Lagerfeld: The Chanel Shows can be viewed during regular gallery hours, Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Rosenbaum Contemporary, founded in 1979, 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.

November 9, 2019 – January 11, 2020

Lee Hall created a wonderful variety of art both on paper and with paper:  acrylic paintings on paper, watercolors, and collages. Jerald Melberg Gallery is pleased to present our fifth solo exhibition for Lee Hall focusing on her colorful, abstracted landscapes on paper.

Lee Hall (1934-2017) was a North Carolina native and renowned Abstract Expressionist, whose muses were the American and Mediterranean landscape. Loosely titled by the locale they represent, her poetic landscapes are iterations of the tradition of abstraction derived from meditations on nature, whose forbearers include a myriad of great minds from painters of the Sung Dynasty to modernist John Marin.

Hall’s legacy is one of an exceptional painter as well as a respected educator and writer. Hall stood with the great artists of the New York School, earning herself representation at Betty Parsons’ famed New York gallery. She also served as President of the esteemed Rhode Island School of Design, and she has written a number of books, including biographies of Willem and Elaine DeKooning and Betty Parsons.

Lee Hall generously left her estate to the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art. The proceeds from acquisitions of her work through the gallery directly fund the museum’s educational programs.

Jerald Melberg Gallery is honored to present an exhibition of paintings and collage by Esteban Vicente, one of the leading members of the American Abstract Expressionist Movement.

During the course of his long and lauded career as a member of the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, Esteban Vicente closely studied shape, light and the possibilities of pigment.  Born in Turégano, Spain, Vicente moved to New York after the Spanish Civil War in 1936. His contemporaries and associates included Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, Barnett Newman, and Ad Reinhardt. Influential New York galleries, and critics alike, recognized his bold, gestural work as being of central importance to the era. In 2011, the Grey Art Gallery at New York University organized a career retrospective featuring collages, paintings and small-scale assemblages, showcasing his talent as both painter and sculptor.

In 1991, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia awarded Vicente the Gold Medal of Honor in the Fine Arts.  The artist’s work is held by major museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Vicente Hernández wields his brushes from within the country to vivdly depict the plight of the Cuban youth in their search for a better life of opportunities and freedoms. His paintings, crafted with the vocabulary of magic realism, depict the absurdity of reality in Cuba and reinforce the intensity of hope of its people. A true contrarian.

 

Hernández was born in 1971 in Batabanó, Cuba. In 1994, Hernández received a degree in art education from the Instituto Superior de Batabanó and worked for two years as a professor in the university’s Department of Fine Arts. The artist has garnered several national awards and honorable mentions. He has also illustrated more than ten books published in the island.

 

The artist has exhibited his work in many countries, including the United States, Spain, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, Dominican Republic and Cuba.

He currently resides with his family in Cuba.

Beatriz Esguerra is pleased to invite you to the opening reception of our Summer Group Show About Paper. With works by Carlos Alarcón, Pablo Arrázola, Armando Castro, Teresa Currea, and Santiago Uribe-Holguín. Featuring works by guest artists Priscila González, Adriana Cuellar, Ana María Lozano, María Lucía Peña, and Lorenza Rodríguez.

 

Saturday, July 27th, 2019

from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM

 

The show will be open through Friday, August 23rd, 2019.

 

Paper is a multifaceted element, rich in possibilities. This exhibition seeks to explore the role paper plays in works of art, as well as the wide variety that exists within the material itself.

For instance, notepad paper is an intimate surface, mainly used to document artists’ most spontaneous thoughts and ideas. In this case, it is displayed for the viewer to see. Industrial paper, also present, is usually employed to elaborate large-scale posters, wrap abundant extensions of cloth, or even produce wick.

Paper can be used as a surface, as a means to highlight color or texture. It can also be manipulated through cutting and modeling, in order to create a three-dimensional feel. Paper can also operate as a plane. It can be altered with the intention of highlighting some of its characteristics, and in doing so, turning it into a protagonist in the work. Cardboard, which is derived from paper, and a material usually considered as disposable, can also be altered in similar ways.

This exhibition highlights the constancy and importance of paper in art, along with the variety and possibilities for creativity that it provides.

Here and There is a show on realist artist, Eric Forstmann, highlighting his recent work. For two months in 2019, he held a prestigious residency at the Vermont Studio Center and much of the work will be from that experience. Other paintings created at his main studio in Torrington, Connecticut will be included.

Summer Selections, an exhibition of summer-themed artwork by Modern and Contemporary masters is now on view at the Rosenbaum Contemporary gallery (150 Yamato Road, Boca Raton, Fla.) The exhibition includes works by artists Mira Lehr, Helidon Xhixha, Manolo Valdés, Simon Procter, Hunt Slonem, Omar Hassan, Roberto Matta, Mel Bochner, Oriano Galloni, Baltasar Lobo, Alexander Calder, Bill Beckley, Cleve Gray, Thomas Hartmann, Mateo Blanco, KAWS, Damien Hirst, Fernando Botero, Steven Seinberg and Pablo Picasso. Highlights include new paintings by Hunt Slonem, vinyl figurines by KAWS, and works by artist Mateo Blanco, who is being shown at the gallery for the first time. The exhibition, which runs through September 21, can be viewed during regular gallery hours, Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

 

Rosenbaum Contemporary, founded in 1979, 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.