About the Artist
1999 Luxia, New York, New York
1995 CBGB's Gallery, New York, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Convergence: New York–Edinburgh; two-person show with Joseph Perez, Salmagundi Club, New York
2008–2017 Annual Salmagundi Club Art Classes Exhibition, New York (Two Certificates of Merit for Outstanding Work; 2017 Best in Show)
2002 "Prevailing Human Spirit," Museum of American Illustration, New York
1992 Attitudes Gallery, Rhinebeck, New York
1989, 1990 Art Student's League, New York, New York
1989 Individuals Gallery, New York, New York (three-person show)
1988 Focus on Art, Orange, New Jersey
1986 Barrett House, New York State Competition, Poughkeepsie, New York
MURAL PROJECTS
2001 Designed, drew, and supervised implementation of 2 murals at P.S. 50, New York, in association with New York Cares.
1996 Designed, drew, and supervised implementation of 50' wall mural at Brandeis High School, New York, in association with Viacom and the Peace 2000 Murals team.
Designed, drew and supervised implementation of 3 murals at P.S. 125, New York, in association with New York Cares.
1995 Part of design/implementation team with Viacom/MTV Animation, in association with the Peace 2000 Murals team, for 3 wall murals at Graphic Arts H.S., New York.
EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATION
1997 Illustrations and cover art for The Magic Land: Designing Your Own Enchanted Garden, by Julie Moir Messervy (Macmillan, New York, February 1998)
1992–93 New York Times, BusinessWeek, and U.N. Development Forum
OTHER
1997 Interior art for CD brochure for Universal, music by Sexus, published by Schoolcut Records, Inc. New York
EDUCATION/STUDIO WORK
1980–85 University of Massachusetts at Amherst BFA, Painting/Graphic Design English Minor/Art History Minor
1988–90, 2005 Art Student's League, New York
1991–92 Editorial and Advanced Illustration, Parson's School of Design, New York
1999–2006 Society of Illustrators, New York, life drawing and portrait painting
2007–present Salmagundi Club, New York, painting studio
HONORS Dean's List for 4 consecutive years at UMass, graduated cum laude
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ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Berger's paintings are influenced by John Singer Sargent, George Bellows and John Sloan, the German Expressionists, and Picasso (Blue Period). Most of her figurative works include some type of self-portrait, in the Renaissance fashion, presenting the artist as an omnipresent observer looking out from the picture plane. The paintings that depict interior spaces are constructed to accentuate the emotions of the figures portrayed within, as well as transport the viewer to a specific milieu: these include cabarets, fashion shoot sets, backstage dressing rooms, burlesque stages, and circuses. The landscapes and cityscapes, mostly without figures, are meant to communicate a sense of space and place through the use of perspective, line, strong color, or contrasts of light and dark: a time of day or year, the feeling of nostalgia for a remembered or archetypal vista.
