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  • HOME
  • About
    • Reviews
    • Curriculum Vitae
    • Bio in Pictures
    • Artist Statement
  • Recent Work
    • Recent Paintings
    • Recent Drawings
    • Paintings in Process!
  • History
    • Pictorial History: Home Page >
      • Pictorial History: 1970-73
      • Pictorial History: 1973-77
      • Pictorial History: 1977-79
      • Pictorial History: 1979-82
      • Pictorial History 1982-87
      • Pictorial History: 1987-93
      • Pictorial History: 1993-04
      • Pictorial History: 2005-09
      • Pictorial History: 2010-15
      • Pictorial History: 2016-17
    • Exhibition History
  • Daily Art Blog
  • CONTACT
  • 2018 -New York City- Solo Exhibit
Carl Mehrbach

Bio in Pictures


1949: Carl Mehrbach born May 13.

1958: Moves to Los Angeles, California.

1970: Begins to make paintings by copying masterworks.
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Copy of Painting by Alfred Sisley, 1970

1967 - 1971: Attends the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana ―   attendance funded by full athletic scholarship (distance runner).  

1970: Paintings, with images created by Carl Mehrbach, are completed. 

1971: Graduates Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa with Bachelor of Science degree.
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1971 - 1973: Attends graduate school at Oregon State University. 

Lives in Corvalis, Oregon.

Continues to paint. 

Attends Life Drawing sessions. 

1973: Graduates with Master of Science in Oceanography.
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1973 - 1977: Lives in New York City. 

1973: Studies at Art Students League with Bruce Dorfman. 

1973 - 1977: Apprenticed to Seymour Leichman
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1977 - 1979: Studies with Philip Guston at Boston University.

1979: Receives Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Boston University.

1977 - 1983: Lives in Brighton, Massachusetts.
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1979: Marries the dancer Ellin Sue Weiss.
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1980: Begins making three-dimensional abstract paintings and drawings. 

1983: Moves to Needham, Massachusetts.
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1982: Birth of first son, Jesse Alexander.
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1983: Birth of second son, Zachary Arthur.
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1987: Moves to Lyme, New Hampshire. 

1987 - 1993: Continues to paint and draw three-dimensional abstractions.
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1993: Begins to paint and draw large scale figurative works.
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1994: Glenn Mehrbach & Carl Mehrbach collaborate to produce the book, "Fragile Heart": music & lyrics by Glenn. All page designs are by Carl Mehrbach; these include drawings illustrating each song, and hand-written lyrics.
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1998 - 2000: Produces works representing couples interacting.
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2001: Major show of figurative works at AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH.
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2002: Fantasy and reality interact in move toward inventive figurative art.
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2003: Abstraction meets reality in works shown at Hopkin Center for the  Arts, Dartmouth College.
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2004: Exhibits new work at Sharon Art Center in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
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2005: Major exhibit of 12 paintings and 12 drawings at Bromfield Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
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Summer 2009: "Paradise Lost" exhibited at AVA Gallery, Lebanon, New Hampshire.
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Fall 2009: One Man Exhibition at the Aidron Duckworth Museum of Art, "Painting & Drawings from Summer 2009"
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July 1, 2010: Retires from teaching. Becomes full time artist.

Painting "Man with Plants" completed and exhibited in AVA Gallery's "Summer Show" (Lebanon, NH)
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2011: The first painting to be completed in Mehrbach's first full year of daily studio work is the large painting, "Pond"
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2012: A year of summation!
Paintings and drawings look back, rather than forward.
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2013: A difficult year of reassessment!
Drawings take over his oeuvre as Mehrbach looks for a personal way to see and make art.
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2014: A year of renewal and surprise!
Mehrbach begins substantial, groundbreaking, large, distinctive paintings 
and drawings.
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2015: The last year to be (almost) totally devoted to figurative work, although a few paintings begin the move to three-dimensional abstraction.
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2016: An amazing year of transition, beginning with figurative work, ending in three-dimensional abstraction.

2017: This year is a celebration: Carl Mehrbach's art hits maturity! The substantiation is undeniable. Every painting, every drawing, every mark, in paint or pencil, exhibits profound understanding.
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2018: Major One-Person Exhibition at One Brooklyn Bridge Park — 15 paintings & 20 drawings were exhibited (hosted by ChaShaMa).
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2018: There has never been art made like this before! Mehrbach's art becomes fully twenty-first century -- totally observant! It is a profound rendering of ideas; it is who we are and where we have come from. This work exhibits deep knowledge of the past and profound reactions to the present. This art is NOW! 
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