Bio in Pictures
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1949: Carl Mehrbach born May 13.
1958: Moves to Los Angeles, California. 1970: Begins to make paintings by copying masterworks. |
Copy of Painting by Alfred Sisley, 1970
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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 Ellin, a dancer he met 4 years earlier at a Red Hook Brooklyn Art Party.
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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.
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2019: A very busy year — Three major Solo Exhibitions:
✦ AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH ✦ Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA ✦ Converse Free Library, Lyme NH Mehrbach's art of 2019 was complex; it required a viewer's full engagement. The drawings and painting of 2018/19 are formal and sophisticated; their striking inventiveness, and their high skill quality, is exhausting. These works led Mehrbach to reconsidered the efficacy of intricate entanglement. The works to follow evolve toward more simple espousal. |
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2020
Here they come... A new world, invented with 20/20 directness, i.e., in search of immediacy, fluidity, recognizability, engagement, honesty, & mindfulness. |
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