Robert Kushner Flip

ROBERT KUSHNER Laye r ed Form

Robert Kushner in his New York studio

Cover Detail: MIDNIGHT IN THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY CACTUS GARDEN 2014 Oil, Acrylic and Gold Leaf on Canvas - Triptych 108 x 132 inches

ROBERT KUSHNER Layered Form

March 11 - April 23, 2016

625 South Sharon Amity Road Charlotte, NC 28211 704.365.3000 gallery@jeraldmelberg.com www.jeraldmelberg.com

ROBERT KUSHNER

Robert Kushner, who emerged in the early 1970s as a performance artist, is well known for the style he has worked in since the 1980s: richly textured and opulent paintings of vegetation and flowers. Use of bold color, minimalist line, and metallic leaf combine in harmonious displays of flora, rendered in a style influenced by decades of exploration of eastern cultures. Throughout his career, he has also worked in drawing, collage, tapestry, set design and mosaic. In addition to paintings on canvas, this exhibition includes a series of mixed media collages composed of elements from varied times and worldly locales, overlaid with minimalist flora forms. Kushner’s work is in the permanent collections of many major institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.; the Tate Gallery in London and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. In addition to his recent inclusion in the MOMA P.S. 1 show Greater New York , his work has been shown in the Whitney Biennial three times and twice at the Biennale in Venice. Kushner has completed numerous large scale public art commissions, including 4 Seasons, Seasoned , a mosaic for the MTA – Art in Transit Program, and a mosaic for the Raleigh/Durham international airport.

MIDNIGHT IN THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY CACTUS GARDEN 2014 Oil, Acrylic and Gold Leaf on Canvas - Triptych 108 x 132 inches

BLACK-EYED SUSANS 2014 Oil, Acrylic and Gold Leaf on Canvas 84 x 60 inches

PANSIES AND FORGET-ME-NOTS 2012 Oil, Acrylic and Gold Leaf on Canvas 48 x 48 inches

SUNGARDEN II 2015 Oil, Acrylic and Gold Leaf on Canvas 30 x 60 inches

SALOME 2015 Oil, Acrylic and Gold Leaf on Canvas 108 x 36 inches

O ALOE, O MAILLOL 2014 Oil, Acrylic and Gold Leaf on Canvas 72 x 36 inches

HOMECOMING 2014 Oil, Acrylic and Gold Leaf on Canvas 72 x 36 inches

PURPLE SPIDER 2014 Oil, Acrylic, Palladium Leaf on Canvas 48 x 48 inches

WHITE CAMELLIA MARBELLIZED 2012 Oil, Acrylic, Palladium Leaf on Canvas 48 x 48 inches

WHITE PARROT BLUE HORIZON 2013 Oil, Acrylic, Palladium Leaf on Canvas 48 x 48 inches

HUNTINGTON LIBRARY CACTUS GARDEN IV POLISH ARMY 2014 Oil, Acrylic and Gold Leaf on Joined Paper 60 x 22 inches

HUNTINGTON LIBRARY CACTUS GARDEN II 2014 Oil, Acrylic, Gold Leaf and Collage on Paper 30 x 36 3/4 inches

O CAMELLIA COUSIN OF TEA, ANCIENT STORIES II 2014 Oil, Acrylic, Gold Leaf and Collage on Paper 19 x 27 1/2 inches

O CAMELLIA COUSIN OF TEA, ANCIENT STORIES I 2014 Oil, Acrylic, Gold Leaf and Collage on Paper 19 x 27 1/2 inches

O CAMELLIA COUSIN OF TEA CIRCLES 2014 Oil, Acrylic, Gold Leaf and Collage on Paper 30 x 22 inches

O CAMELLIA COUSIN OF TEA, RACHEL’S TOMB 2014 Oil, Acrylic, Gold Leaf and Collage on Paper 24 x 15 1/2 inches

DIE HAUSFRAU 2015 Oil, Acrylic and Collage on Paper 10 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches

HAWAIIAN POSTAGE 2014 Collage, Ink and Acrylic Mounted on Museum Board 10 x 8 inches

IOLANI PALACE 2014 Collage, Ink and Acrylic Mounted on Museum Board 10 x 8 inches

JOHNNY-JUMP-UP II 2014 Collage, Ink and Acrylic on Paper 10 1/2 x 10 inches

JOHNNY-JUMP-UP III 2014 Collage, Ink and Acrylic Mounted on Museum Board 10 x 8 inches

JOHNNY-JUMP-UP I 2014 Collage, Ink and Acrylic on Paper 10 1/2 x 10 inches

ROBERT KUSHNER b. 1949, Pasadena, California

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2002 Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM

2016 Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC

Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2015 DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY Texas Gallery, Houston, TX

2001 Oxy Gallery, Osaka, Japan

DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii

2014 Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2000 Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY

2012 DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM

2011 Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

1999 Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM Gallery APA, Nagoya, Japan

Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY

2009 DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

1998 Hiromi Paper International, Inc.,

2008 Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC

Bergamot Station Art Complex, Santa Monica, CA DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, TX New Jersey Center For Visual Arts, Summit, NJ

2007 Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan 2005 Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke, MA

1997 DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY Gallery One, Toronto, Canada Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM Hiroshima Prefectural Museum, Japan

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan Gallery Shiraishi, Tokyo, Japan

2004 DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL.

Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1996 Elliot Smith Fine Art, St. Louis, MO

The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2003 DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan Gallery Orie, Tokyo, Japan Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL

1995 Midtown Payson Galleries, New York, NY Barbara Scott Gallery, Miami Beach, FL Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, TX

COLLECTIONS

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA

1994 Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY Gallery APA, Nagoya, Japan Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA

Gallery Inoue & Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan Quartet Editions, New York, NY Gallerie OZ, Paris, France Blancpain/Stepczynski Galerie, Geneva, Switzerland

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Galleria degli Ufizzi, Florence, Italy Gröninger Museum, Gröningen, the Netherlands Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI

1993 Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan. Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY Floria/Brown Gallery, Woody Creek, CO Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ

J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, CA Library of Congress, Washington, DC

1992 Timothy Brown Fine Art, Aspen, CO

Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan Midtown Payson Galleries, New York, NY

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany Museum Ludwig, St. Petersburg, Russia Museum Moderner Kunst - Palais Lichtenstein, Vienna, Austria The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO Neue-Galerie-Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Rockefeller Center, New York, NY San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL State of Hawaii St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam, Holland The Tate Gallery, London, England Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1991 Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY

The American Craft Museum, New York, NY First Gallery, Moscow, Russia

1990 Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY Crown Point Press, New York, NY

1989 The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY

Staller Center for the Arts, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY

1988 Iannetti-Lanzone Gallery, San Francisco, CA Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI D. & J. Bittker Gallery, Birmingham, MI J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY

625 South Sharon Amity Road Charlotte, NC 28211 704.365.3000 gallery@jeraldmelberg.com www.jeraldmelberg.com