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Jennifer Berk | Art Gallery Event | Monument Sotheby’s International Realty
May 1, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Please join us on Thursday, May 1st, from
4-6 pm at our Village of Cross Keys Office & Gallery to enjoy the paintings of Jennifer Berk.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My favorite paintings are the ones I don’t know I’m painting until they’re finished. I focus on the process and am unconcerned with the final destination. Each painting literally begins with a blank canvas or page with no preconceived plan. I remain open to possibility, painting what comes from within, letting instinct and the canvas guide me. The result is usually gestural and expressionistic, nonobjective compositions or sometimes a rustic landscape, pasture, or open field remembered from my childhood growing up on a farm and from my travels.
Nonobjective painting, for me, is a welcomed departure from life’s routines, schedules, and expectations. From the smallest task each morning, we have a schedule, a plan, a goal for what needs to be accomplished. Non-objective painting offers an almost overwhelming amount of freedom. A blank canvas. No directions, no expectations, no preconceived destination or image, keeping everything in a state of flux, fragile and bold. Painting is unknown territory, an act of discovery. My paintings stem from a dream, a journey of self, an exercise of faith — to a finished product that will hopefully affect the viewer in a lyrical and personal way. My work is gestural. Colors are rarely realistic or as they “should” be. Painting for me is a journey, preserving the color and richness of nature, figure or idea in a lasting image for years to come. I try to capture my experiences and transform them into something colorful and interesting.
Artist Biography/CV
Jennifer paints in acrylic and mixed mediums on canvas and paper. After a 25-year career in marketing, Jennifer began studying abstract, landscape, and figurative painting under a variety of accomplished, nationally known painters. Never having attended a school of art, Jennifer is otherwise self-taught. Jennifer’s paintings are in corporate offices in Pittsburgh, PA, Rockville, MD; Charlotte, N. Carolina, and Atlanta, GA, as well as in private collections from Florence, Italy to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work has been exhibited in a variety of juried and non-juried shows, including: The Waldorf School, the Hoffberger Gallery, the Myerberg Center, The Gordon Center, The Towson Art Collective, The Women’s Artist Forum, The Unicorn Gallery, The Charles, Sascha’s, Monument Sotheby’s International Realty Ruxton and Crownsville galleries and the LOF/Gallery.
Website: www.jenniferberk.com
Email: jberk@gggco.com
Cell/ Text: 443.286.4955