Thursday
September 11th

5:30-8:00 PM

406 South Grove

Park Road

Join us Thursday, September 11th, at 5:30 PM as Goetze Art & Design celebrates the grand opening of our new home in Laurelwood Shopping Center. We’re debuting a new collection by beloved Memphis artist Kurt Meer—featuring birds, landscapes, and scenes that hum with quiet beauty.

We’re also excited to celebrate our shared space with RiverCity Lifestyle. Whether you’re an old friend or discovering us for the first time, we hope you’ll stop by, explore the space, and raise a glass to what’s ahead. 

As an art student at the University of Memphis, Kurt Meer says he was profoundly affected by the theories of Whistler. “I have adopted Whistler’s comparison of painting to music,” he says. “Color is like a keyboard where there is a root key or color harmony within which there are a variety of chords created by playing opposites against one another, such as warm and cool, saturated and unsaturated. All these build to a tension that is resolved by returning to the root harmony.”

Whistler found one means of expressing his theories in a series of works depicting the River Thames at night. For Meer, the Mississippi River that flows through his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, is the inspiration. Unlike the vigor of the Mississippi, Meer says his goal is to convey tranquility and to create images that become “points of meditation … like seeing water in the early morning when it is still and glasslike."

The harmony he achieves through color echoes in Meer’s compositions. “I use ancient principles of architecture and geometry, both Western and Eastern, in sizing my panels and composing within that space,” he says.