FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Suki Berg, Making Her Mark
Celebrating seven decades of art-making
April 4 - 26, 2008
Opening Reception
April 5, 6 - 10pm
Birthday & Art Talk
April 26, 12 - 3pm
Free Admission
Orange County Center For Contemporary Art
117 N Sycamore. Santa Ana, CA 92701
714 667 1517
E-mail, grau@prodigy.net
Web site, http://www.occca.org
Thursday and Sunday, 12-5pm; Friday, Saturday, 12-9pm
1st Saturday Receptions: 6-10pm
First Friday Films: 8pm
(left) Suki Berg, “Family”, 1956, water media on cardboard, 45 x 27”.
(right) Suki Berg, “Mother Earth”, 1958, oil on canvas, 44 x 34”.
For Suki Berg, art is a mystery to be solved. From her student days, she emerged in the 1950s as a talented young artist, taking classes in New York City with Hans Hoffman, and finding her own path in the new form of Abstract Expressionism.
The hallmark of that era, the "gestural mark," remains an important aspect of her work to this day. In her earliest work family relationships are represented not in a sentimental way, but in terms of distance and estrangement. She continues to develop the theme of relationships metaphorically, within layers of mythology, in the late 1950's and early 60's. The landscape comes into play in the middle period of Berg's art, when it provides an escape from family crisis. In the 1990's her work returns to myth, metaphor, and family, this time in penetrating portraits of herself.
Turning 91 years old this April, Suki awakens each day still eager to work in her studio.
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art is pleased to honor our long time member, Suki Berg, with this retrospective. This show is a tribute to seven decades of art, and to this exceptional and dedicated woman who inspires us.
Admission and events are Free & open to the public.
Artwork is for sale unless noted as otherwise.
First Friday Films: April 4: 8pm
The Apartment (1960)
Director: Billy Wilder
EMC Concert: April 12: 8pm
Walk In Medical
Clevis
Exit Music
Within the Minutes
OCCCA is located
at the corner of 2nd and Sycamore in the Santa Ana Artists Village.
There is no entrance fee. Please see the web site for more information, http://www.occca.org, or call the gallery during regular operating hours.
