September 12 – October 31, 2015

Jerald Melberg Gallery is pleased to present Lee Hall Collages: Captiva and Rome Wall Series.  The exhibition features collages on paper and on canvasboard. Known primarily for her painting, Hall’s two distinct collage series demonstrate variety in the artist’s technique, as well as an ability to capture mood, color and her own emotive response to her environs. She treats her collages as “vocabulary cards” that function as small studies on the essence of the place they represent.

The ROME WALL SERIES collages are vertically composed, with torn and cut papers in the most intense hues of magenta, purple, brown and ochre.  Hall created these works while serving as a Senior Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome.  By contrast, the CAPTIVA collages are horizontal compositions bright with the many blues of the sea and striped with sunny yellow and sandy earth tones. They were created upon returning from a trip to Captiva Island, Florida, taken in an effort to briefly escape the Massachusetts winter.

Lee spends much of her time traveling but lives and works in central Massachusetts. She is an artist, educator and writer, so her paintings and collages have poetic qualities, which can be traced to the modernist tradition of abstractions produced from meditations on nature. Prior to serving as President of the Rhode Island School of Design from 1975-1983, Hall taught at Winthrop College in Rock Hill, SC, for several years. She is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the Childe Hassam Purchase award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977.

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 paintings from the exhibition online, visit the gallery’s web site at www.jeraldmelberg.com.