Kim Keever: Water Color

Felicia van Bork: Pasted Paper

November 11, 2016 – January 14, 2017

After 33 years, Jerald Melberg Gallery is pleased to present our first ever exhibition of photographs.  New York based artist Kim Keever’s boldly colored images are abstract in composition and large in scale. With a strategic dispersal of pigment into a 200-gallon tank of water, he photographically captures the billowing color colliding into a soft yet explosive choreography.

A recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, Keever has been living and working out of his New York studio for many years. He has exhibited extensively throughout the country and abroad, recently in both London and South Korea. Keever's work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, Microsoft, Bank of America and Philip Morris.

In a separate solo exhibition, we will feature new monotype collages by Felicia van Bork. The influences of both Post-Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism playfully share the stage in this work, which is a continuation of her "How to" series. Unexpected combinations of pattern and color are synchronized and organized to evoke natural vistas, often populated by non-objective protagonists.

Having completed her MFA at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2009, she has studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design, Columbia University, The New School, and the Art Students League. She has been honored with residencies at Byrdcliffe, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the McColl Center for Art + Innovation.

Jerald Melberg Gallery will host a Reception on Friday, November 11 from 6-8 p.m. and a Coffee and Conversation artist lecture with both Kim Keever and Felicia van Bork on Saturday, November 12 at 11 a.m.

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