Empowering and Protective Bodies Merge in Laura Berger’s Metaphysical Paintings
“Ghost Garden.” All images courtesy of Laura Berger, shared with permission
Empowering and Protective Bodies Merge in Laura Berger’s Metaphysical Paintings
November 12, 2024
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Kate Mothes
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In complementary shades of blue and orange or pink and green, Laura Berger’s oil paintings (previously) meld embracing figures with botanicals, landscapes, and celestial phenomena. Women lounge comfortably in a steam bath or walk across an expanse of dunes, often rendered lightly transparent as if floating over or absorbing their surroundings.
Berger situates the figures’ interactions in the center of the composition, bending and arranging limbs, foliage, fabric, or strings of stars into intimate, metaphysical geometries.
“Resurfacing”
Her imagery adopts a subtle rhythm, sometimes even near-symmetry, in a nod to spirituality and transformation. Emanating empowerment and a sense of safety, the women wrap around one another in endearing, protective collectivity.
Berger will have work in a booth presented by Mama Projects at Untitled Art Fair, which runs December 4 to 8 in Miami Beach, and will be part of the exhibition Ultraviolet Catastrophe at The Pit’s Palm Springs location, which is scheduled to open on December 17.
Find more on the artist’s website, and follow updates on Instagram.
“Desert Walking”
“The Steam Bath”
“Night Thoughts”
“Behind the Garden”
“The Garland”
“Tracing Your Outline”
“Transience”
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