EXHIBITION AT café de balie amsterdam

March 2022 the exhibition was held at the famous Café de  Balie. 

Jerry Charlton Meye (born 1965) was a textile designer for twenty years. His creations ended up on scarves, wall hangings, and furniture. When the pandemic forced him to stay home as an employee of Paradiso, he used the time to create linocuts, monotypes, and woodcuts. His ornaments and stencils virtually exploded into abstract prints in an almost infinite palette of colors, searching for balance through geometry. Drawings carved from Perspex, applied in acrylic with palette knives and spatulas, and printed multiple times on various types of paper, create movement that evokes associations with the jungle. From expressive, it moves to lighter, almost watercolor-like. Printed less often and less intensely over each other, the white draws the ornaments into depth. Meye’s textile background allows the colors to flow with large movements, contrasting with hatchings from fine to coarse. He achieves thickness through more layers, sometimes printed wet on wet, until an interesting shape emerges. Each drawing is unique. Meye strives for perfection and, although he works intuitively, he leaves nothing to chance.