Wow. Park Slope painter, Emily Berger, has a solo exhibition at the Painting Center opening on Thursday May 22nd.

Props to Emily Berger. I happen to LOVE her works on paper; dark expressive drawings that evoke architectural structures that are abstract and emotional drawn.

Both her abstract paintings and drawings are layered and formed and
disrupted by color, gesture, and sometimes a looping line that
introduces organic form to vertical and horizontal structure.

She was also invited to participate in the 183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art. National Academy Museum. 1083 Fifth Avenue. New York, NY.

May 29 – September 7, 2008
www.nationalacademy.org

Emily Berger lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. A graduate
of Brown University, she received a MFA from Columbia and attended the
Skowhegan School. She has been a resident at the Millay Art Colony,
among others. She is a member of American Abstract Artists and curated
the exhibit “Nature Abstracted” at The Painting Center. She also takes
photographs, and considers her black and white photographs as source
material for painting and drawing as well as works in their own right.
Her work has been included in exhibits in the Northeast and in New
York, most recently at the Metaphor and Sideshow Galleries, as well as
at the Museum of Modern Art in Bogota, Colombia. She is participating
in The National Academy Museum’s Annual Invitational Exhibition of
Contemporary American Art on view concurrently with this show.