NYAB Event - Robert Bergman "A Kind of Rapture"

Robert Bergman "A Kind of Rapture"

Yossi Milo Gallery

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Yossi Milo Gallery announces an exhibition of color photographs by Robert Bergman. Mr. Bergman has taken photographs for over 40 years; however, this year marks the premiere exhibitions of his work.

From 1985 through 1997, Robert Bergman traveled America’s Midwest and East Coast by car with a 35mm format camera, taking portraits of people he met by chance. After spending a brief time with each subject, Bergman created portraits of people in the urban locations where he encountered them, using only available light. The exhibition will include approximately seventeen 37” x 24.6” digital C-prints.

Color, composition, light and the artist’s engagement with each subject, combine to form portraits that reflect the individuality of each subject and give insight into our shared humanity. Art historian Meyer Schapiro wrote of Mr. Bergman’s photographs, “His finest works bring to mind some of the greatest painted portraits…The authenticity of Bergman’s art appears in the ‘hypnotic’ impact of faces that have attracted him as bearers of an unfathomable human presence, a self and a human condition. Here are masterful revelations of states of existence in the inner and outer person – truly profound works of art.”