Stone + Press | Stone + Press Artists | Martha Mayer Erlebacher
(American, born 1937)
Erlebacher is renowned for her extensive background in anatomy, historical painting techniques and the literature of realist painting. She earned her Master of Fine Arts from Pratt institute and she teaches on the faculty of the New York Academy Graduate School of Figurative Art. The figure, nude or simply draped, is her primary subject. In the catalog notes of a recent exhibition at the Arnot Art Museum, It was written that "at its most base level, it is the drawing of 'form' that Erlebacher revels in. Like a sculptor or an architect, the foundation of her art is in an understanding of volume, how it functions in space, and how subtle changes in the nuances of light and color add new dimensions to it."
The artist has had more than twenty one-person exhibitions, and she has been collected nationally and abroad, including the Yale university Art gallery, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York. She is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards including, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant, a Mellon Venture Fund Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Senior Fellowship and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship.
Erlebacher is renowned for her extensive background in anatomy, historical painting techniques and the literature of realist painting. She earned her Master of Fine Arts from Pratt institute and she teaches on the faculty of the New York Academy Graduate School of Figurative Art. The figure, nude or simply draped, is her primary subject. In the catalog notes of a recent exhibition at the Arnot Art Museum, It was written that "at its most base level, it is the drawing of 'form' that Erlebacher revels in. Like a sculptor or an architect, the foundation of her art is in an understanding of volume, how it functions in space, and how subtle changes in the nuances of light and color add new dimensions to it."
The artist has had more than twenty one-person exhibitions, and she has been collected nationally and abroad, including the Yale university Art gallery, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York. She is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards including, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant, a Mellon Venture Fund Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Senior Fellowship and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship.
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