NYAB Event - Emily Berger "New Paintings and Works on Paper"

Emily Berger "New Paintings and Works on Paper"

The Painting Center

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The Painting Center presents "New Paintings and Works on Paper" by Emily Berger in the Project Room. In these works Berger explores the horizontal elements of the grid often dispensing almost entirely with the vertical. Using a limited palette of both subdued and heightened earth tones she paints, scrapes, wipes, covers and uncovers lines and bands in various states of solidity and transparency. Rhythmic intervals of color and light evoke a sensation of movement across, up and down and in and out of a shallow space. Here the graphic looping line in some of her recent work seems to have been flattened and compressed leaving somewhat rounded edges and hints of organic form, around and through which further depth is suggested. Her slightly off-kilter compositions and unstable line increase the feeling of tension and contained movement in these evocative works.

Emily Berger lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.