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June Issue 2004
Jerald Melberg Gallery in Charlotte, NC, Features Works by Thomas McNickle
The Jerald Melberg Gallery in Charlotte, NC, now located at 625 S. Sharon Amity Road, near the corner of Providence Road, is presenting the exhibition, Liberating Convention, featuring new oil paintings and watercolors by Thomas McNickle through July 3, 2004. The exhibit will be McNickle's ninth solo exhibition at the gallery.
Collectors and institutions around the country
have long admired McNickle's beautiful depictions of rural Pennsylvania
and of the coastal areas of South Carolina. His exceptional technical
ability is evident, however, an intrinsic feature of his painting
is the Zen philosophy of rapid execution. Approaching each painting
in a meditative state, McNickle captures the essence of the landscape
before him by layering direct, spontaneous strokes of color.
McNickle's work has been exhibited in countless museum and gallery
exhibitions over the course of his career. His work can be found
in numerous public and private collections including the Butler
Institute of American Art, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Bank of America
and USAirways.
A full color catalogue has been published to accompany this exhibition. Copies are available at the gallery. The following is a excerpt from an essay by Stuart Johnson from the catalogue.
"In the case of the landscape painter,
a turn away from literalism runs quickly into convention. If we
seek a way of responding to the painting as a landscape painting,
we contend with the fact that the conventions of the genre are
very powerful. Some artists may allude to conventions primarily
for the purpose of making their distance from the conventions.
Thomas McNickle, by contrast, embraces the conventions of landscape,
exploring the conventions and using them to make paintings that
depict slices of space and time (what Wordsworth called 'spots
of time'). The question then arises, how does he embrace and use
the conventions without being imprisoned by them? One answer is
that Thomas McNickle's paintings not only depict, but also create,
experiences with temporal and special richness," says Johnson.
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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