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| featured artist ellen BERMAN by June Mattingly // regularmain.com Austin artist Ellen Berman's art education includes a BA from the University of Texas in Austin followed by an MFA from the University of Houston. She's had one persons lately at the McMurtrey in Houston and Adair Margo in El Paso who also represent her work and at Diverse Works, the Austin Museum of Art and the Beeville Art Museum and her work is featured at Conduit in Dallas and in the inventory at home base, d.berman gallery. |
| "Square Jar," 2010, oil on board, 12 X 12 inches |
| Berman is a contemporary master of the still life. Still lifes (not lives I assure you) traditionally depict realistically mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects such as a bouquet of flowers, a wine bottle, a variety of vegetables and bowls of fruit in a setup setting with limited perspective. |
| Three Red Plums, 2010, oil on panel, 12x12" |
| Frida Kahlo ‘s still lifes of the 1930s, such as “Tunas,” 1938 “in which three prickly pears that resemble extracted hearts… against a tablecloth whose folds become an unruly sky” were influential in her work. “I think that almost all women artists say she was important to them, because of her guts, her determination and her success.” It’s hard to disagree with that, Mrs. Berman! |
| This popular form of composition dates from the adornment of the interiors of ancient Egyptian tombs past such Modern Masters such as Matisse, Picasso, Van Gogh and Braque in periods from Impressionism to Cubism to the present. Berman plays with similar interrelating design elements only her simplified compositions, detailed brush work, purposeful reflections, glowing color harmonies and tonal values are uniquely her personal representational style. |
| "Three-Quarter Melon, " 2010, oil on board, 18 X 30 inches |