Abstract Painter Berg Exhibits At Sellars Project Space In October October 1, 2010

Denver, CO: Sellars Project Space is pleased to host an exhibition of new paintings by Colorado artist Andy Berg. Berg, who works out of his studio at Ironton Studios in Denver, will be presenting new abstract works at an opening on Friday, October 1, 2010 with a reception for the artist from 6 - 9 p.m. This exhibition will continue through October 30, 2010.

In his worked and reworked canvases, Berg brings forth specters of unseen forces or things felt but not named. In his engagement with materials, Berg connects with his own physical being — applying, incising, or removing the fleshy paint with intensely physical actions. The traces of his impulsive yet purposeful movements are sinuous and abrupt, elegant and brutish, intricate and raw. Rather than contradictory effects, one generates the other. While color often describes, Berg exploits its capacity for suggesting space and movement, light and substance. Shunning easy relationships, Berg selects colors that startle, juxtaposing pretty with jarring, lyrical with violent, emotional with contemplative. A palette of pastel blue, yellow, pink, and green recalls a sensuous rococo painting and conjures the feminine. Yet pink can play against type and becomes raucous even intimidating. His blacks and whites embody the underlying yin and yang, but they are laden with emotional, associative content.

Sellars Project Space is located in the Historic Highlands - Berkeley Neighborhood at 4383 Tennyson Street in Denver, Colorado (near the corner of 44th Avenue and Tennyson Street). Sellars Project Space is open Tuesdays - Saturdays from 10 - 2 p.m. and always by appointment. For more information or directions visit http://www.sellarsprojectspace.com or call 720.475.1182.

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