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From Seriousness to Silliness at Artspace Warehouse

Clara Berta’s acrylic and mixed-media artworks blend texture and color to create harmony, mystery and depth on the painted surface. Many of the resulting shapes are irregular, vague, incomplete, overlapped, and transformed, free of traditional associations such as postmodern Abstract Expressionism or Conceptualism. Artspace Warehouse Los Angeles has represented her dynamic artworks since 2011. Her richly layered works have been exhibited across the United States and collected internationally.

This medium-size, dynamic and textural painting is 30 inch tall by 40 inch wide. It can be installed as a vertical or horizontal work. The sides of this blue, white and turquoise artwork are painted white. It does not require framing. It is signed and titled by the artist on the back. Free local Los Angeles area delivery. Affordable US and worldwide shipping. A certificate of authenticity is included.

Clara Berta is a passionate, award-winning, mixed-media artist of Hungarian heritage. Her abstract mixed-media paintings explore themes such as the ebb and flow of memory, the significance of personal heritage, renewal, the passing of physical time, desire, passion, and love. Her abstract works often include reminders of her travels expressed in unexpected sequences of patterns as well as distortion of perspectives and subconscious spaces. Manipulating the texture with several layers of texture paste and acrylic paint, she will work and re-work her canvases, layering textures to give added dimension, and creating works that intrigue and invite the viewer to explore not only the surface but also the inner language of the painting.

She explores the collision between the old and new, destruction and rebuilding lives. Her paintings underscore the awareness of the failures and shortcomings that are part of our lives. Her artworks are a language, a push forward in new directions and achievements, while always inspired by history. Berta mixes minimalism with underlying texture and embraces modernism while compiling the odds and ends of her attempts to let her art speak for itself.

Exhibitions
2016 Made in California, Juried Exhibit, Brea Gallery, Brea
2016 Vision of LA Fest, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
2015 Michael Kate Interiors - Santa Barbara, CA
2015 JCC Gallery - Santa Barbara, CA
2011-2016 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, FL
2012 Gem, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Barnsdall Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Tell No One, The Wine Bistro, Studio City, CA
2009 Art: Raw/Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas, NV
2008 Stella Dottir Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 NoHo Gallery LA, North Hollywood, CA
2007 Riverside Museum, Riverside, CA
2006 Locanda Veneta, West Hollywood, CA
2006 Altobelli Gallery, North Hollywood, CA
2004 Erotic by Nature, LaPeer Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
2004 Lankershim Art Center, North Hollywood, CA
2003 Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2003 Studio 3 Art & Design, Westwood, CA
2000 Pick-A-Dilly Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA

Awards and Honors
2016 Third Place Prize “Made in California” Juried Exhibit, Brea Gallery
2016 ABC’s “The Catch”
2016 Art featured “Broken Links”, by Meir Sharony
2009 “You Again”, Disney film by Andy Fickman
2007 Artwork featured in Deepak Chopra’s DVD, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
2003 Art Expo Finalist, Fullerton, CA

Education
2014 Abstract Painting - Melinda Smith Altshuler, Santa Monica, CA
2008 Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy
2008 Mixed Media - Private Studies, Carol W. Slade, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Abstract Painting - Private Studies, Annie Wharton, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Mixed Media - Private Studies, Melinda Smith Altshuler, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Mixed Media, University of California, Los Angeles
2003 Monotype - Private Studies, Lynn Bernay, Valley Village, CA

Signature: This artwork is signed by the artist on the back (so it can be installed either horizontally or vertically).

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