Brief Bio |
Carl Mehrbach began his formal training at the Art Students’ League in New York City in 1973. His teacher at the League was Bruce Dorfman. After three months Dorfman recommended Mehrbach to the artist Seymour Leichman. This began a four year apprenticeship in painting and drawing. In 1977 Mehrbach began studies with Philip Guston. Guston, considered one of the greatest painters of the 20th Century, painted cartoonish, bigger than life figures, with lush, gushy, highly textural paint. Guston’s work fascinated Mehrbach. Under Guston’s tutelage Mehrbach received his Masters of Fine Art in Painting in 1979 from Boston University.
Mehrbach began his professional career as a figurative artist, strongly influenced by Philip Guston. Today Carl Mehrbach paints and draws in a three-dimensional abstract style, unique to him and to 21st Century Art. Occasionally Mehrbach does make figurative references in his work, but his robust style always finds importance in its use of light, three-dimensional form, and energetic composition. This website is updated once per week, includes current work, a full history of Mehrbach’s art, and a page to view the making of several recent paintings in slide shows showing every state of these paintings, from beginning to end. The best way to understand Mehrbach's ongoing endeavor is to read his daily Art Blog. There are three ways to understand Mehrbach's life, and his history as artist: (1) Biography in Pictures, (2) Pictorial History, and (3) Catalogue Raisonné. |