September 13 - October 25, 2014

Jerald Melberg Gallery opens two new exhibitions for artists Thomas McNickle and Mary Frank.

Thomas McNickle is well known as a virtuoso landscape painter but, alongside these representational compositions, he has always been equally compelled to create a body of abstract works. The artist explains, These large canvases, like all my work, are grounded in nature:  the places, sounds, smells and relationships she provides. They are not attempts to portray or understand these things on a descriptive level, but to deal more directly with the experiences themselves rather than the things experienced…just another way of being there.  Thomas McNickle’s work can be found in numerous collections including the Butler Institute of American Art, the Hoyt Institute of Fine Art, the Gibbes Museum of Art, the Morris Museum of Art, Vero Beach Center for the Arts and Kansas State University.

The gallery welcomes the esteemed artist Mary Frank with an exhibition of her powerful and poignant sculpture and works on paper. Scholar and author Linda Nochlin writes, Mary Frank reveals herself once more to be the visual poet of the inner life, evoking the pain and the mystery of our human embeddedness in the natural world. She is not afraid of the large subjects, nor is she reluctant to deploy her extraordinary skills as a creator of memorable imagery in the service of our darkest memories: death, chaos, loss, fragmentation.  Mary Frank’s  work can be found in the permanent collections of such prestigious institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Jewish Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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.