Emily Berger
American, b. 1953
Emily Berger is an American abstract painter based in Brooklyn, New York. Her paintings are minimal and gestural, revealing in process and celebrating the hand of the artist. Berger is a member of American Abstract Artists. After graduating from Brown University, Berger earned her MFA in Painting from Columbia University, and attended the Skowhegan School in Maine. She has lectured extensively and participated in numerous artist residencies, including the Norte Maar Adirondacks outpost. Berger has exhibited internationally in numerous galleries and museums. Her work is included in numerous private and public collections, including Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Drawings and Prints, New York; Museum of Modern Art, Library Special Collection, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art Library; Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; and the Delaware Art Museum, among others. Berger works with oil paint on wood panels. She layers paint in gestural, horizontal swaths from left to right, stacking the horizontal bands from top to bottom of the surface. An interplay of complementary colors creates a sense of push pull, endowing her compositions with nuanced luminosity. Scraping and scumbling the layers of paint, Berger gives her paintings a textured, painterly, material presence. She describes her method as being in the tradition of Abstract Expressionism—as if an event is taking place in the arena of the painting. Her approach, however, is quite controlled. Despite its structural reliance on the grid, the interplay between planning and the emergence of accidents lends the work a feeling of energy and mystery.(Biography provided by IdeelArt)
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Old Flame (Abstract painting)
By Emily Berger
Located in London, GB
Old Flame (Abstract painting)
Oil on wood - Unframed.
She layers paint in gestural, horizontal swaths from left to right, stacking the horizontal bands from top to bottom of the surf...
Category
2010s Abstract Emily Berger
Materials
Wood, Oil
Old Flame (Abstract painting)
By Emily Berger
Located in London, GB
Old Flame (Abstract painting)
Oil on wood - Unframed.
She layers paint in gestural, horizontal swaths from left to right, stacking the horizontal bands from top to bottom of the surf...
Category
2010s Abstract Emily Berger
Materials
Wood, Oil
Heart Thromb (Abstract painting)
By Emily Berger
Located in London, GB
Heart Thromb (Abstract painting)
Oil on wood panel - Unframed.
She layers paint in gestural, horizontal swaths from left to right, stacking the horizontal bands from top to bottom of...
Category
2010s Abstract Emily Berger
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Red Dream (Abstract painting)
By Emily Berger
Located in London, GB
Red Dream (Abstract painting)
Oil on wood - Unframed.
She layers paint in gestural, horizontal swaths from left to right, stacking the horizontal bands from top to bottom of the surf...
Category
2010s Abstract Emily Berger
Materials
Wood, Oil
Red Dream (Abstract painting)
By Emily Berger
Located in London, GB
Red Dream (Abstract painting)
Oil on wood - Unframed.
She layers paint in gestural, horizontal swaths from left to right, stacking the horizontal bands from top to bottom of the surf...
Category
2010s Abstract Emily Berger
Materials
Wood, Oil
Untitled no 6 (Abstract painting)
By Emily Berger
Located in London, GB
Untitled 13 (Blues) (Abstract painting)
Mixed mediums on paper - Unframed.
She layers paint in gestural, horizontal swaths from left to right, stacking the horizontal bands from top ...
Category
2010s Abstract Emily Berger
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Untitled 13 (Blues) (Abstract painting)
By Emily Berger
Located in London, GB
Untitled 13 (Blues) (Abstract painting)
Mixed mediums on paper - Unframed.
She layers paint in gestural, horizontal swaths from left to right, stacking the horizontal bands from top ...
Category
2010s Abstract Emily Berger
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Blue Note (Abstract painting)
By Emily Berger
Located in London, GB
Oil on wood panel - Unframed.
She layers paint in gestural, horizontal swaths from left to right, stacking the horizontal bands from top to bottom of the surface. An interplay of co...
Category
2010s Abstract Emily Berger
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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