Susan Washington

Threads No. 2 - Modern Mixed Media Artwork

2022

Clara Berta’s acrylic and mixed-media paintings blend texture and color to create harmony, mystery, and depth on the painted surface. Her paintings transform spaces into Zen environments where one can quiet a cluttered mind and enjoy beauty every day. Clara Berta’s paintings explore themes such as the ebb and flow of memory, the significance of personal heritage, the passing of physical time, desire, grief, and love. Color and minimal design are foundational to Berta's creations. Berta's enthusiasm for exploring and experimenting with color is contagious. "Manipulating color combinations to create vivid contrasts is an endless delight," Berta expresses. Balancing design elements with color proves both demanding and richly satisfying. This artwork measures 36 inches high by 48 inches wide. The sides of this abstract original artwork are painted white. It is stretched, wired, and ready to hang. It may be installed vertically or horizontally. It is signed and titled by the artist on the back. Free local Los Angeles area delivery. Affordable Continental U.S. and worldwide shipping available. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included. Clara Berta explores the collision between the old and new; destruction and rebuilding lives. She began painting as an outlet of grief; creating something beautiful as the result of loss. Through her creative practice, she has found healing and further offers her community safe spaces for troubled teens and women to heal through the meditative process of painting. Her artworks are a language, a push forward in new directions and achievements, while always inspired by history. Berta mixes minimalism with underlying texture and embraces modernism while compiling the odds and ends of her attempts to let her art speak for itself. Her abstract works often include reminders of her travels expressed in unexpected sequences of patterns as well as distortion of perspectives and subconscious spaces. Manipulating the texture with several layers of texture paste and acrylic paint, she will work and re-work her canvases, layering textures to give added dimension, and creating works that intrigue and invite the viewer to explore not only the surface but also the inner language of the painting. A passionate, award-winning artist of Hungarian heritage, Clara Berta's dynamic and highly textural abstract works have been exhibited and collected worldwide. Artspace Warehouse has been representing and exhibiting Clara Berta's original artworks since 2017. The gallery has been a 1stdibs partner since 2014 with consistently excellent reviews from clients worldwide. The gallery exhibits a large selection of affordable original artworks from established and emerging international artists with diverse backgrounds at high standards. Artspace Warehouse is known to provide accurate descriptions, images, reliable services, communication, and delivery. REPRESENTATION Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA SELECT EXHIBITIONS 2022 Solo show, Ethereal, Artspace Warehouse, CA Blue Like the Ocean, Artspace Warehouse, CA About Women: Celebrating Women Artists, MAC Fine Art, Delray Beach, FL Blue Configurations (Paper) Series, Ronewa Art Projects, Berlin, Germany 2021 20th International Art Exchange, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan BLVDG Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2020 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA 2019 Bistango Restaurant with Ethos Contemporary, Irvine, CA 2019 MAC Fine Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 2018 Heath Gallery, Palm Springs, CA 2018 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA 2018 Pictures at An Exhibition: LA Phil Gallery, CA 2018 Breaking Illusions, Claremont University, CA 2017 Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY 2017 Made in California, City of Brea Gallery, Brea, CA 2017 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA 2016 Made in California, Juried Exhibit, Brea Gallery, Brea 2016 Vision of LA Fest, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica 2015 Michael Kate Interiors - Santa Barbara, CA 2015 JCC Gallery - Santa Barbara, CA 2011-2016 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA 2013 Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, FL 2012 Gem, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA 2010 Barnsdall Theatre, Los Angeles, CA 2010 Tell No One, The Wine Bistro, Studio City, CA 2009 Art: Raw/Gallery, New York, NY 2009 Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas, NV 2008 Stella Dottir Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2007 NoHo Gallery LA, North Hollywood, CA 2007 Riverside Museum, Riverside, CA 2006 Locanda Veneta, West Hollywood, CA 2006 Altobelli Gallery, North Hollywood, CA 2004 Erotic by Nature, LaPeer Gallery, West Hollywood, CA 2004 Lankershim Art Center, North Hollywood, CA 2003 Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA 2003 Studio 3 Art & Design, Westwood, CA 2000 Pick-A-Dilly Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA AWARDS AND HONORS 2021 Gold Award & Award of Excellence, 20th International Art Exchange, Chiba City Museum of Art, Japan 2019 LA Artcore Juried Exhibition, Honorable Mention 2018 CFA Artist of the Year Finalist 2017 Made in California, City of Brea Gallery, Brea, CA 2016 Third Place Prize “Made in California” Juried Exhibit, Brea Gallery 2016 ABC’s “The Catch” 2016 Art featured “Broken Links”, by Meir Sharony 2009 “You Again”, Disney film by Andy Fickman 2007 Artwork featured in Deepak Chopra’s DVD, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success 2003 Art Expo Finalist, Fullerton, CA EDUCATION 2014 Abstract Painting - Melinda Smith...

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