Mike Berg

Mike Berg creates beautiful abstract kilims – a pileless textile produced by several flat-weaving techniques – that are painstaking in process, but render a sculptural quality upon completion. Berg collaborates with weavers in Western Turkey, creating stitched, knotted and woven art forms.

"Though I live in Istanbul, I am heavily inspired by the western abstract aesthetic,” Berg says. “My work is a process: it's a combination of intentional design – my drawing compositions – and the application of chance, color selection, and the vagaries of the translation of my compositions into the finished work.”

Submitted by Stremmel Gallery