Menthe Wells is a represented artist on www.artmuseumsinternational.com which contains the gallery museums for New York, London, Paris and Los Angeles in an International Museum Art Gallery.
www.menthewells.com features a range of Menthe Wells work. You can also contact the artist for other gallery representation locations in the USA.
Museum stores: The museum stores on various sites have a range of smaller creations available for collectors interested in purchasing smaller items of fine art for collections. Additionally, there are other fine arts items at a full range of varied prices located in other museum stores in other geographic locations including records of Menthe Wells exhibits currently available in museum books, postcards, small sculptures in various media, handcrafted cards which are small frameable art works original and prints, paperweights of welded steel and other materials and media available in some additional locations.
- Currently available Museum Exhibition book – San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA) major exhibition. The SLOMA Museum Store may have copies available in stock or contact www.artmuseumsinternational.com
Menthe Wells
Contact: menthewells@gmail.com
(714) 692-5555 (If leaving messages, please send an email as well for contact)
Website of artists who use synaesthesia:
http://www.daysyn.com/synesthete-artists.html#anchor_106
Menthe Wells is listed as a synesthete artist with Van Gogh and with Hockney 2012-2015 …………..Menthe with other leading artists
Menthe Wells
Menthe’s multifarious variety of style and fusion of east-west cultures includes her work incorporating Asian features in large wall hangings. Her work that has been exhibited in the Cica Museum of Art in Korea, the Chiang Mai Museum of Art in Thailand and other international Asian LA Art Core exchanges was influenced by the 1964 New York City private discussions with Lipchitz on the cubist influences descending from Primitive African Art resulting in a flow to the “spirit of optimism.” They met in the Segy Gallery, and Jacques Lipchitz was blending cultures of French and central European influences with the sculptural form of bronze metal experience in his own work. There were cultural connections as Menthe was born in New York City, with a legacy of America- immigrated European born grandfathers who lived in Italy and France. Menthe’s earliest study of painting was in the Museum of Modern Art as a child artist, moving to formal painting study (under Lam [MOMA exhibited artist] who worked directly with both Josef Albers and Hans Hoffman). Five years of fine arts painting conveyed her distinct Albersian-color-based influences (BS Art, Dana Scholar, University of Bridgeport). Under the Roy Lichtenstein led art department at Rutgers University, Menthe received her Masters in Art (fine art painting and sculpture). In the period of her Masters studies, she regularly discussed sculptural planes, metal, materials, and forms with Lipchitz in NY City’s Segy’s gallery in 1963-1964. The Lipchitz discussions embraced cubist forms and metal-based creative experiences forming Menthe’s current welded steel sculpture. While at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in the capacities of teaching, exhibiting, and developing the public-funded museum works of “Impressions” (the first time this type of work had been developed in a Museum) the work evolved as a year-long sight-sound intermedia project curated by the Museum Directors Elliott and Selby and originated and created by Menthe).In this time period, she fully embraced synaesthesia in her own works. Menthe determined a PhD path in the examination of synaesthetics (Dp ED and PhD, as a doctoral scholar with degrees awarded by the University of Connecticut). Crossing paths with Robert Rauschenberg and his delightful whimsy at openings in the Wadsworth Atheneum’s events influenced her use of media, color and form in soft sculpture. Menthe merged idea, practice, color-and-form with whimsy in media fusion and cultural expansion of synaesthetic form, initially in soft sculpture, which resulted in the Hartford Courant as featured artist in a Sunday Edition full-page-spread as “Soft Sculpturist Extraordinaire.” The outcome included Menthe’s art expanded work “happenings/events” for Gene Feist’s innovative directions of the fusion of the arts in the Roundabout Theatre in New York City.