🌿🌿LANDSCAPES, INTERIORS, STILL LIFES by Helen Berggruen Fine Artist 🌿🌿
Image: Helen Berggruen, Between Two Worlds, 2020,
Oil on linen, 22” x 28"
Helen Berggruen cordially invites you to her exhibiton
BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
An exhibition of oil paintings and new watercolors by Helen Berggruen
Saturday, May 7th – Sunday, July 24th, 2022
Opening Reception: Friday, May 6th, 5 – 8 pm
Demuth Museum
120 East King Street
Lancaster, PA
Demuth Foundation a nonprofit organization operating
two art museums in downtown Lancaster, PA.
More information about the venue
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Helen Berggruen was born in San Francisco, CA in 1945. She received her
B.A. at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville New York in 1974. She
currently resides in San Francisco. Her main themes are:
LANDSCAPES, INTERIORS, STILL LIFES.
Her artworks are like windows to beauty of inner or outer space of her memories, ideas combined with personal experiences, like visual poems of stirring spaces and the spinning energy - the will of creation- the beauty of life itself depicted by fresh brushstrokes and warm colors.
Each of her canvases capture the breathing aura of interiors, landscapes, still lifes by vibrant colors, forms, objects. Her innner, outer space variations are energetic vibrations, uplift the viewer and invites to meditate on colors, shapes and dive into, discover the artwork.
BIO by Krevsky Fine Art
"Helen Berggruen was born in San Francisco in 1945. She earned her bachelor’s degree in 1967 from Sarah Lawrence College, where a good friend was novelist Alice Walker (class of ‘65). Berggruen is quoted in the biography Alice Walker: A Life by Evelyn C. White (2004), discussing a summer when she and Walker worked with the rural poor in Alabama. Berggruen credits their friendship with developing her strong social consciousness.
The artist’s original passion was the theater. From 1971 to 1974, she studied with director Robert Wilson’s “Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds,” an experimental performance group in New York.
Helen also painted. Her talents led many – including her father, Heinz, the renowned art dealer and collector – to encourage her to pursue art seriously. Helen followed this advice and shifted her direction. By the late 1970s, she was a fully committed visual artist. Through the ensuing decades, Helen has been painting and exhibiting in the United States and Europe. She currently lives in the Napa Valley, and also spends part of each year in Iowa, with both regions providing inspiration."
About Heinz Berggruen:
Heinz Berggruen (6 January 1914 – 23 February 2007) was a German art dealer and collector who sold 165 works of art to the German federal government to form the core of the Berggruen Museum in Berlin, Germany.
German art dealer Heinz Berggruen and Pierre Hugo
Paris 1980's
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Source:
INTERIORS by Helen Berggruen
Mantel, Callalillies, Clock
2013
Oil on canvas
22 x 28"
More information about Helen Berggruen
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Personal Thoughts by Helen Berggruen about her art
"As the pace of life in the 21st Century continues to accelerate at breakneck speed, and new electronic devices enable us instantly to tune out our immediate surroundings, directing our attention elsewhere, my ambition has become to slow down in order to observe the land and cityscapes before me.
Rather as a beekeeper in March awaits the special hum indicating the presense of a swarm of bees, I tend to roam with a sketchbook and canvas until I light upon a particular confluence of angles, textures, and objects of contrasting scale.
Once the easel is set up, the objective is to fix an image of the fleeting moment: a blue truck rolling through a new mown hay field, a storm brewing over a late 19th century Midwestern house, a cup of coffee left half empty on the table."
Beyond that moment, in choosing the elements that compose the picture, I seek an essential quality that links grain elevators, tractors, fields of sunflowers, kitchen tables, books, city buildings, to another place, or even another country, sometime in the distant past, or perhaps, the indefinite future."
Helen Berggruen
https://www.helenberggruen.com/
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