Upcoming Exhibitions:
Robert Sean Coons
Distortions
C2 Gallery
September 6-27, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 6, 2008, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Sunset Stripped, 2008, Oil on canvas, 24 x 96 inches
Koji Takei
ISOMETRY
D5 Gallery
September 6-27, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 6, 2008, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Jeff Charbonneau & Eliza French
MASSILLON
New Large-Scale Black & White Photographs
C2 Gallery
October 4 - November 1, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, Oct 4, 6:30-8:30pm
Select Past Exhibitions:
An Instability of Ideas, 2008, Oil on wood
Cameron Gray
We're All Doomed
July 26th - August 23rd, 2008
Gallery C2
Robert Berman Gallery presents an exceptional solo exhibition from Cameron Gray, with a set of "paintings" that are painstaking assemblages of credit card size mini-tableaux, cleverly put together to form portraits. This body of work, which makes up Gray’s second solo exhibition at the Robert Berman Gallery, addresses politics, religion, ideology, nature, commerce, media and our propensity for violence.
Beyond the interest of Cameron's work is his art of digital, network manufacturing.
His work begins as digital studies, which are divided into hundreds of small pieces and then sent out to a group of artists composed of personal associates, professional colleagues and Internet correspondents. By breaking the painting down into a grid of pixels and outsourcing the work, Gray builds a virtual factory by way of the Internet. Each painting is comprised of several smaller paintings. The smaller images used are thematic and play a vital role in the depiction of the larger image. This modern approach is used to create the appearance of a traditional oil painting.
Born in 1974 in Anaheim, California, Gray lives and works in Los Angeles. Prior to his entrance into the L.A. art scene, Gray owned his own animation studio and worked as an Animation Director for films like Apocalypto, Underworld: Evolution, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and multiple videos for the band, Tool.
View selected works from this exhibition
Reason Has Limits, 2008, Oil on wood
Yarg Noremac
Enjoy It While You Can
July 26th - August 23rd, 2008
D5 Gallery
Robert Berman Gallery is proud to present the US premiere of artist Yarg Normac in an exhibition entitled “Enjoy It While You Can” which consists of paintings that explore the chaotic and surreal world of rock concerts through his method of reality alteration.
Noremac has been following rock bands in America and Europe for the past several years, photographing young music fans at rock concerts. He then paints from the photographs, breaking them up into smaller pieces, creating a fragmented, hallucinogenic version of the moments he's experienced. His previous work was a series of portraits of chickens, plucked nude or dressed in revealing bathing suits, but always turned away from us while looking back, craning their necks, reminiscent of the well crafted pose of the young ingénue posing for her admiring fans. Normac’s work deals with the relationship between the entertainer and their devotees, while somehow capturing what is sacred in that exchange.
Yarg Normac was born in 1981 in Eckonförde, Germany. He attended the prestigious Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, Germany and graduated in 2007. Normac currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
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not having, 2008, acrylic and oil on masonite, 36 x 48 inches
Dennis Mukai
p a s s a g e
New Paintings
June 21 - July 19, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 21, 2008
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Gallery C2
Robert Berman Gallery presents a solo art exhibition from Dennis Mukai titled “Passage,” a collection of new paintings that personify workings of memory and inner awareness through his ability to blur the delicate balance between reality and illusion.
Often mistaken for photographs, Mukai’s new works are painstakingly created using only sandpaper to remove layers of paint to gradually reveal the white of the original surface, a technique developed and perfected through experimentation and trial & error. Inspired by primitive photos from the advent of photography, Dennis’ realistic yet distressed images trigger the emotions of recollection.
Renowned art critic, Peter Frank, expresses, “Mukai’s pictures manifest a reality that exists within our minds, a reflection, not on what we see or know, but how we see and know it”
Dennis Mukai was born in Hiroshima, Japan. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
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David Trulli
All Lines Are Busy
April 5- 26, 2008
Gallery C2
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 5, 2008
6:30 - 8:30 pm
All Lines Are Busy, 2007, Ink, clay and acrylic on Masonite, 40 x 30 inches
For More Information and to view images from the exhibition
Alex Steinweiss: Creator of the Album Cover
Original album covers, paintings and collages
by Alex Steinweiss
And special tribute by selected artists.
Co-Curated by Kevin Reagan and Greg Escalante
Before Alex Steinweiss invented the album cover
in 1938, at the age of 23, all albums came in
plain brown wrappers. Steinweiss's idea to create
a package that had something visual on the outside
to lure the consumer was a huge success.
That simple idea revolutionized the record business
and spawned an entire new field of illustration -
album cover art - that is now inseparable from
the product it announces. Steinweiss's covers are
still regarded as icons of the genre. He designed
them as miniature posters, with eye-catching
graphics, distinctive and vivid colors, and creative,
original typography. He was an accomplished
illustrator, and he incorporated original artwork
into most of his pieces. The Steinwiess style
went hand in hand with the golden age of jazz,
classical, and popular music.
About the Tribute show:
As an addition to a show of Steinweiss's work
there will be a tribute show paying homage
to his unprecedented contribution to album
cover art. Steinweiss is 90 years old this year
and this tribute is long over due.
Participating artists include:
Sergio Aragones
Brett Aronson
Anthony Ausgang
Clive Barker
Bill Barminski
Gary Baseman
Lou Beach
Sandow Birk
Andrew Brandou
Kimberly Brooks
Hugh Brown
Gomez Bueno
Richard Duardo
Ron English
Mary Fleener
Andrew Foster
Victor Gastelum
Gregg Gibbs
Cameron Gray
Tamara Guion
Mick Haggerty
Jason Holley
Michael Knowlton
Masaki Koike
Charlie Kraft
Carol Lay
Lola
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Jason Maloney
Michael McManus
Brian Moss
Mear One
Josh Petker
Raymond Pettibon
Vanessa Prager
Kevin Reagan
Martha Rich
Ellwood T. Risk
Charles Schneider
James P. Scott
John Seabury
Shag
Winston Smith
Nathan Spoor
Craig Stecyk
Tommy Steele
Parsley Steinweiss
Miles Thompson
David Trulli
Byron Werner
Glen Wexler
Shoshannah White
Allee Willis
Jim Woodrin
Jody Zellen
Bob Zoell
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*view selected STEINWEISS images from the exhibition
*View selected TRIBUTE pieces from the exhibition
Show runs January 19 - February 23, 2008
*Opening Reception: Saturday, January 19th, 2008
Gallery C2
No Admission Fee, Open to the Public
FEATURED IN THE LOS ANGELES TIMES - 1/24/08
View article
Alex Steinweiss and this exhibition are featured in the January 2008
edition of JUXTAPOZ magazine
click to view the article
An exhibition featuring the work of select members of the notorious
Seventh Letter (T7L) graffiti collective. Within the Seventh Letter collective is an elite crew known as Angels Will Rise (AWR), who have established themselves as L.A.’s most influential modern
muralists.
The show will consist of a floor-to-ceiling mural installation constructed by AWR members:
Pusher, Zeser, Krush, Rime, Saber, Revok, Retna, Reyes, Skrew, Sever and Ewok.
Curated by Brett Aronson
January 19 - February 23, 2008
*Opening Reception: Saturday, January 19th, 2008
Gallery D5
No Admission Fee, Open to the Public
*View selected works from the exhibition
FEATURED IN THE LOS ANGELES TIMES - 1/17/08
View article
LA WEEKLY - 1/24/08 - FEATURED ON SLIDESHOW
photos by amirimage
WeAreTheSuperlativeConspiracy
March 1 – March 15th, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 1, 2008
From 6:30 – 8:30pm
Gallery C2
ROBERT BERMAN GALLERY is pleased to announce a group
show curated by Alex Prager with artists from
WeAreTheSuperlativeConspiracy (WeSC).
Chris Pastras, Mercedes Helnwein, Jason Lee, Alex
Prager, Sage Vaughn, Clint Peterson, Chad Robertson,
Beth Reisgraf, Par Stromberg and Marcel Strewer are
uniquely powerful sources of creativity with diverse
backgrounds. They have been asked to artistically
communicate the values of WeSC through their varying
modes of expression.
Presented by Nylon Magazine
For more info: www.wesc.com
View Selected Images from the Exhibition
Brad Benedict's Sideshow
April 5- 26, 2008
Gallery D5
A group exhibition curated by Brad Benedict
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 5, 2008
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Participating artists include:
Van Arno
Attaboy
Anthony Ausgang
Bill Barminski
David Brinley
Lou Brooks
David Buckingham
Chris Buzelli
Dave Calver
Colin Christian
Sas Christian
Chris Crites
Daniel Davidson
Britt Ehringer
Ron English
Lori Field
Andrew Foster
Sam Gambino
Colin Johnson
Nancy Kintisch
Laurie Lipton
Everett Peck
Chris Peters
Judy Ragagli
Billy Reynolds
Joe Rocco
Cassandra Szekely
Brian Taylor
Bob & Val Tillery
Mark Dean Veca
Eric White
Barnaby Whitfield
Nate Williams
Robert Williams
Brian Zick
Featured in Juxtapoz Magazine
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PHOTO LA
January 10 - 13, 2008
Barker Hanger, Santa Monica
Featuring:
Alex Prager
artist portfolio
Eliza French and Jeff Charbonneau
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artist portfolio
Christopher Felver, Gerald Slota, and John Colao
Ellwood T. Risk
Collateral Damage
 
Inspired by the works of Sigmar Polke, Hunter S.
Thompson, and William S. Burroughs, Risk employs tools
of destruction to create intriguing and iconic imagery.
Referencing the near epidemic proportions of gun
violence in America and tragedies within our school
systems, these works reflect a basic moral vacuum and
the incidental damage affecting contemporary society. A
self-taught artist, Risk frequently experiments with
epoxies and resin, while incorporating images of guns,
targets and silhouettes into his work. A complicated
narrative is often implicit in these multi-layered
pieces.
This will be Risk’s second solo show with the ROBERT
BERMAN GALLERY.
Show runs November 17 - December 22, 2007
*Opening Reception: Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Gallery D5
View selected works from the exhibition
Green
Curated by Mark Murphy
The ROBERT BERMAN GALLERY and Murphy Art Books are
proud to
present GREEN, an artist exhibition featuring inspired
painters and image-makers that form an eclectic mix of
fine artists, graph and street artists and comic
artists. Curator and publisher, Mark Murphy has invited
40 artists to share their inspired vision about the
delicate and often aggressive intermingling of human
beings with nature.
Featured Artists
Jason D Aquino, Jordan Awan, Andrew Brandou, Cathie
Bleck, Marc Burckhardt, William Buzzell, David Chung,
Amy Crehore, Kevin Christy, Sas Christianson, John
Copeland, Bob Dob, Douglas Fraser, P-Jay Fidler, Joseph
Daniel Fiedler, AJ Fosik, Robert Hardgrove, Jody
Hewgill, Michael Hussar, Tim Hussey, Jordin Isip, Rich
Jacobs, Pamela Jaeger, David Choong Lee, Anthony
Lister, Jen Lobo, Mars-1, Chris Mostyn, Mark Murphy,
Scott Musgrove, Christian Northeast, Martha Rich and
Esther Pearl Watson Collaboration, Kathie Olivas,
Nathan Ota, Brandt Peters, Jermaine Rogers, Kim Scott,
Keith Shore, Jeff Soto, Damon Soule, Matt Stallings,
Gary Taxali, Jonathan Viner, Amanda Wachab, Justin Wood
Show runs November 17 - December 22, 2007
*Opening Reception: Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Gallery C2
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PHOTO MIAMI - Featuring the work of Alex Prager
December 3 - 10, 2007
M.S. GARVEY'S
LETTERS TO THE PRESIDENT
with the Hootenanny All-Stars
November 29, 30th and
December 1, 2, 6 - 9th, 2007
In a presentation honed over four years in undisclosed sites in Romania, Chicago, Berlin, and elsewhere, M.S. Garvey — by turns fiery, mesmerizing, and wise — preaches excerpts from over 130 letters he's sent to George W. The sonic reverb of the Hootenanny All-Stars, reminiscent of bluesy urban underbellies and fallow heartland wheat fields, provides an authentic American backdrop.– JT Priest
Produced by Ice Hat Creative in conjunction with the Robert Berman Gallery
at the Electric Lodge in Venice, CA
“Letters to the President” features Venice-based poet/actor/activist M.S. Garvey performing selections from the more than 130 letters he has written to President Bush since May of 2002. For this first full-scale production, he is accompanied by The Hootenanny All-Stars, a band of accomplished musicians who create a distinctive soundscape by using a variety of instruments including guitar, accordion, palm branch and trombone. Part beat poetry, part jam session, part old-fashioned tent revival, “Letters to the President” is all entertainment, carried out with enthusiasm, humor and insight.
For more information
View the trailer
Marischa Slusarski
The Bruise of Human Contact
October 13- November 3, 2007
Seemingly Ecstatic Extremophiles, 2007, Mixed Media on Canvas, 68 x 54 inches
View selected works from the exhibition
Cameron Gray
Mise en Scene
October 13- November 3, 2007
 
The Man (and detail), 2006, Oil on wood tiles, 62.5" x 38.5"
View selected works from the exhibition
Eric Orr (1939 - 1998) survey of works
September 8 – October 6, 2007
The Robert Berman Gallery is pleased to present a survey of works by artist Eric Orr (1939-1998). Part of the Southern California Light and Space movement of the 1960s-70s, Orr was a contemporary conceptual artist dealing primarily with installation, sculpture, and painting. His work is based on a religio-philosophical conceptualization of space icons found in ancient religions and cultures, such as Egyptian symbolism and Buddhist spiritualism. In his installations, Orr worked with the elemental qualities of natural materials—stone, metal, water, and fire—with the intention of eliciting a visceral response from the viewer. Other materials Orr used include gold leaf, lead, blood, human skull, and AM/FM radio parts. Orr's body of work also include monochromatic paintings, as well as large scale fountains that can be viewed in a variety of public and private spaces around the city of Los Angeles.
Orr is an internationally acknowledged artists with work in the collections of the Pompidou Center in Paris, France, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, The Farm in New Zealand, the San Francisco Museum of Art, and The Gugenheim.
The exhibition will feature a number of Orr's works from the 1970s through the 1990s, and a short documentary on his life—"Crazy Wisdom"—that was collaboratively produced Orr’s daughter, Elizabeth Orr and Orr's lifelong friend, Kent Hodgetts.
The opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 8, 2007 from
6:30 – 8:30pm.
Trailer for the Upcoming Documentary "Crazy Widsom" by Elizabeth Orr
view images from the exhibition
JASON PETERS
p a i l e o n t o l o g y
curated by E L K
JASON PETERS, paileontology, will be on view at ROBERT BERMAN GALLERY during August, 2007.
A Reception for the Artist will be held on Saturday, 11 August, 2007, from 7-9.
Brooklyn-based artist, Jason Peters, makes his west coast debut this August, 2007, with a large-scale installation at ROBERT BERMAN GALLERY. Peters will transform his host gallery into a world of infinite darkness, inhabited by a megalithic, luminous form. Using simple industrial materials and light, the artist effaces the traditional white gallery space, and erects rhythmic structures that echo our visual notions about deep space, molecular science,planetariums, dark rides, and hallucinatory rabbit-holes. With his singular, signature style, Jason Peters conjures space in the tradition of artists such as Richard Serra, and Gordon Matta-Clark, using urban objects and surfaces to alter our perception of an artwork’s authorship, sociological place and purpose. With grace and stunning ingenuity, he follows in the legacy of those like Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and others who introduced and championed the use of objects trouvées in their three-dimensional works.
A graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland (1999), Peters is the recipient of two highly sought-after residencies, including one from the renowned Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA, 2006, as well as an upcoming residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska, Fall 2007. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions since the late 1990’s and was the subject of two large-scale installations: The Space in-between, Brooklyn, New York. 2005, and Continually Becoming, in Sante Fe, New Mexico, 2004. This is Peters’ first solo show in California.
German by birth, Jason now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
For more images and updates go to
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artist cv
pressrelease.pdf
As the history of art becomes longer and more crowded
with work, it becomes increasingly difficult to create
something truly original -- and that's exactly what
Jason Peters has done with this amazing sculpture.
Encompassing the microcosm and the macrocosm in one
fell swoop, it's like a piece of music you've never
heard before that's instantly burned into your memory.
- Kristine McKenna
"Coming Soon"
New Paintings by Gomez Bueno
&
"North Atlantis"
A Raymond Pettibon Film
June 23 – July 21, 2007
C2 gallery
"Coming Soon", New Paintings by Gomez Bueno is a solo show featuring a video collaboration with Raymond Pettibon.
*view selected images from the exhibition
View the trailer for "North Atlantis" a Raymond Pettibon film:
“Audio Collage”
A Live Musical Collaboration with Raymond Pettibon and Guests
In Conjunction with the Closing Party for “Coming Soon” new paintings by gomez bueno and screening of “North Atlantis” a film by Raymond Pettibon
Sunday, July 22, 2007
ROBERT BERMAN GALLERY is pleased to present “Audio Collage”, a live musical collaboration with Raymond Pettibon, Jonny Cournoyer of the band Old War Shirt, performance artist M.S. Garvey, musician Bob Rokos, Chris Meszler, musicians/composers Tomas Jacobi and Nicolas Barry, artist Ashley Lauren Saks and very special guests. This performance is in conjunction with the closing party for “Coming Soon”, new paintings by gomez bueno and the screening of “North Atlantis” a film by Raymond Pettibon on view now through July 22nd. The performance will take place on Sunday, July 22nd beginning at 6:30 pm and is free to the public. Refreshments will be served.
*View images from the performance
*View short video of the performance
POLYESTER
New Photography by Alex Prager
April 21 – May 12, 2007
Los Angeles based photographer Alex Prager uses a cinematic approach in her vivid, intriguing, still imagery. Stories unfold with each photograph that stimulate the senses and playful yet bizarre scenes are a balancing act between fantasy and reality.
 Click to view Los Angeles Times article on Alex Prager, April 25, 2007
**View images and information from the exhibition
**For available works please contact the gallery
FIGMENT
February 17th - March 10th, 2007
Curated by Ashley Lauren Saks & Jon Cournoyer
A group exhibition featuring works by
Marie-Claire Bozant
Jeff Charbonneau & Eliza French
Reeve Schumacher
Erika Somogyi
Gallery C2
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Past Exhibitions:
2007
Ellwood T. Risk Collateral Damage
November 17 - December 22, 2007
Green Curated by Mark Murphy
November 17 - December 22, 2007
PHOTO MIAMI - Featuring the work of Alex Prager
December 3 - 10, 2007
Marischa Slusarski The Bruise of Human Contact
October 13- November 3, 2007
Cameron Gray Mise en Scene
October 13- November 3, 2007
Eric Orr A Survey of Works
September 8 - October 6, 2007
Jason Peters "paileontology"
Curated by E L K
August 11 - September 4, 2007
"Coming Soon" new paintings by gomez bueno
"North Atlantis" a film by Raymond Pettibon
June 21 – July 21, 2007
Liu Zheng - new paintings
June 21 – July 21, 2007
Polyester: New Photography by Alex Prager
April 21 – May 12, 2007
Onesto: So Close To Be Touched
April 14 - May 5
BEAT: Christopher Felver
March 17 - 31
Liu Zheng Selected works
March 2007
Louis Renzoni Selected works
March 2007
Figment - Group Exhibition featuring works by
Marie-Claire Bozant (seattle, wa)
Jeff Charbonneau & Eliza French (los angeles, ca) Reeve Schumacher (miami, fl) Erika Somogyi (new york, ny), Curated by Ashley Lauren Saks & Jon Cournoyer
Feb 17 - Mar 10
Paul Bob Velick - Fireworks, A Studio Fire Installed,
Feb 17 - Mar 10
Daniel Kaufman - Encaustic Perceptions, Jan 20 - Feb 10
2006
Koji Takei - New Works, Dec 2 - Jan 15
(Berman/Turner Projects)
Friendly Fire: Four from the East
Curated by Jonathan Levine
October 14- November 11
(Berman/Turner Projects)
Ron English - New Works
October 14- November 11
(Berman/Turner Projects)
Robert Sean Coons - Deceptions
September 9 - October 14
(Berman/Turner Projects)
Don Sorenson - Retrospective
April 22 - May 20
(Berman/Turner Projects)
Queen of the Night, Women under the Influence 1963-2006
Curated by Elk
April 21 - May 13
(Berman/Turner Projects)
Elizabeth Tinglof - Mersion
March 11 - April 8
(Berman/Turner Projects)
2005
Tyson Grumm - New Paintings
November 19 - December 17
(Berman/Turner Projects)
Bill Barminski - About Face
September 9 - October 4
(Berman/Turner Projects)
Ellwood T. Risk - Loaded
July 9 - August 9
(Berman/Turner Projects)
Flow
Curated by Peter Frank
July 23 - August 23
(Berman/Turner Projects)
Britt Ehringer - Baghdad Pizza Hut
May 14 - June 14
(Berman/Turner Projects)
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders -
XXX: 30 Porn Star Portraits
April 2 - May 8
(Berman/Turner Projects)
Jorg Dubin - Out of Bounds
February 5 - March 3
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