Harmony Gallery Artist Reception – Pearl Berger

Pearl Berger's paintings are excavated as much as composed. In "Strata," the series on view for this reception in Sarasota Orchestra's Harmony Gallery, she lays oil and cold wax onto birch panels, scrapes back into the layers and rebuilds them, so each surface keeps traces of earlier states; the theme is accumulation and change over time. Berger is a psychotherapist as well as a painter, a vocation that informs the work's concern with how experience alters perception. She moved from New York in 2022, keeps many panels going at once in her studio at SRQ East Art Studios, and was selected for the Cold Wax International Exhibition. Define Art Gallery on Palm Avenue carries her work.