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Overview
Richard Berman is known for his refined and subtle color field paintings. He paints spare panels with formal, graphic compositions of complex visual depth. The paintings are slow to reveal their form, with nuanced tonal shifts that gently direct the eye through the compositions. The colors are frequently so close in tone and value they seem nearly monochromatic, but upon closer inspection reveal layers of subtlety and movement. His work is mystereous, contemplative, and quiet, allowing the viewer to savor the details as the totality of the image emerges. -
Works
Richard Berman
Flatbush Series #1mixed media on panel48 x 36 inchesCopyright The ArtistExhibitions
Abstractions | June 16 through July 02, 2017Biography
Richard Berman is known for his refined and subtle color field paintings. He paints spare panels with formal, graphic compositions of complex visual depth. The paintings are slow to reveal their form, with nuanced tonal shifts that gently direct the eye through the compositions. The colors are frequently so close in tone and value they seem nearly monochromatic, but upon closer inspection reveal layers of subtlety and movement. His work is mystereous, contemplative, and quiet, allowing the viewer to savor the details as the totality of the image emerges.
Berman was raised in New York but settled in New Mexico where he has maintained a studio practice since 1993. Early on, Berman attended the Music and Art High School in New York City, then the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and worked for The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. His work is featured in collections across the nation.
Exhibitions-
Shar Coulson + Richard Berman
Unearthing Layers 8 - 24 Apr 2022Unearthing Layers is a two-person exhibition featuring new paintings by Shar Coulson and Richard Berman. Both artists work in abstraction driven by color—Shar Coulson through lush interpretations of the...Read more -
Abstractions 2021
19 Nov - 12 Dec 2021Featuring Work by Beverly Kedzior, Emilio Lobato, Joseph Ostraff, Willy Bo Richardson + Judy WoodsRead more -
Shar Coulson + Richard Berman
27 Mar - 12 Apr 2020Nüart Gallery presents, Between the Known and Unknown , a two person exhibition of new paintings by Shar Coulson and Richard Berman . The exhibition will run March 27th through...Read more -
Abstractions 2018
Group Exhibition 29 Jun - 15 Jul 2018(SANTA FE, NM) Nüart Gallery is pleased to present, 'Abstractions 2018' a group exhibition of new work by six contemporary artists working in abstraction. The exhibition will run June 29th...Read more -
Abstractions
Richard Berman | Howard Hersh | Guillaume Seff | Sunny Taylor 16 Jun - 2 Jul 2017Read more
