Spotlight Artist

Jan Christopher-Berkson

Midwest
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Feral Blooms

Abstract art with geometric shapes, a blue bowl, and wavy green and red lines.

acrylic on canvas

A Vessel for Sonia

Abstract geometric shapes in bold colors on a red and gray dotted background.

acrylic on canvas

Water Tells Our Truth

Colorful abstract geometric shapes on a green patterned background

acrylic on canvas

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Artist Statement

 My work is anchored in the image-making process and invested in generating relationships with and between images. My work takes on a distinct spatiality as a point of departure to bring into focus sharp-edge geometric shapes, some representational, interplayed with color.

My work of the past several years has been shifting toward another existence within its boundaries. Titles may allude to fears and challenges, or reference nebulous shapes that portray fragmentary or enigmatic objects. Against an atmospheric or static background, the shapes depict a sense of floating and/or disequilibrium speaking to an ever-changing landscape.

With a long-time concern for our shifting world ecology, my greatest interest and terror is the question of how man’s impact on the environment is forcing people and nature to evolve, and what that will ultimately mean to all earthly components. It is my wish to create synthetic structures to deal with the sense of chaos and lack of control over real structures that exists in daily life; thus, having a place to compartmentalize and grapple with this reality.

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