Robert Motherwell Solos at Jerald Melberg Gallery

Wednesday, 09 August 2006 13:15

Charlotte, NC - Jerald Melberg Gallery is honored to present its fourth solo exhibition of works by Robert Motherwell. The Torn Edge explores the artist’s fascination with various papers and the collage medium and includes over twenty unique collages and related prints.  On view September 9 – October 14, 2006.

For Motherwell collage was a very direct, personal statement.  Torn or cut bits of wine labels, cigarette packages, catalogues or posters are sometimes incorporated into the work - not simply fragments of printed matter, but fragments of Motherwell’s life - the wine he drank, the brand of cigarettes he smoked for forty years.

In the 1940s, Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) became the youngest member of a group of artists known as the Abstract Expressionists.  Motherwell rejected conventional realism and explored a reality that went beyond the recognizable image. 

With a career that spanned half a century, Robert Motherwell has been represented in countless museum and gallery exhibitions.  His first major retrospective was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1965.  Since that time he has been honored with retrospectives by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, among many others.

To view selected works online, visit Jerald Melberg Gallery at www.jeraldmelberg.com