Clay Johanson

From the Jerald Melberg Gallery web site: Ernesto Berra continues to live in Cordoba, Argentina, the city in which he was born. Berra is a graduate of the University of Cordoba and has had over twenty-five solo exhibitions dating back to 1969. The abstract urban landscapes of Ernesto Berra reflect the familiar old structures within his city that ar... e crumbling with the advent of time. In addition to preserving a bit of the past, the artist sometimes gathers remnants of the decaying buildings to incorporate into his collage paintings, which also include acrylic, wood, fabric, wire and paper. This combining of these diverse elements with the artist's experiences gives power to the waste and deterioration of these elements within Berra's paintings. Chris Burkholder was born in Ohio in 1952 and grew up in Houston, Texas. Self-taught as an artist, Burkholder attended Angelina College, setting up his own studio in 1972. Known for his ethereal landscapes, Burkholder's style can be described as American Luminism. The delicate changes in colors, achieved by glazing many layers of acrylic, creates a hazy, dream-like effect. His landscapes are frequently not of a specific region, rather they are from a collection of memories. Burkholder has been honored with over twenty-five museum and gallery exhibitions, including the Maryland Institute of Art and Masur Museum of Art. His works can be found in numerous private and public collections, including the US Department of State Art in Embassies Collection, Baylor College of Medicine, Bank of America, IBM, and Ernst & Young. A native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Arless Day builds the best of all possible worlds in his collage-paintings of pastoral architecture, landscapes, and interiors. Day constructs these environments from scores of images collected, cut, torn, and then pasted. The artist then "pulls the image together" by painting over the collage with gouache. The dream world he creates sparks joy, delight, and whimsy in the observer. Looking at Day's collages, the viewer ...Read More