Gerry Bergstein: Dithering Machines
On View: September 5 - 30, 2023
Reception: Thursday, September 7, 5 – 7pm
Walk-through with the Artist: Saturday, September 23, 2pm
“I want the works to appear to be fragments of partly destroyed ancient documents reassembled by incompetent restorers. Perhaps they are documents of our time reassembled by future generations. I’m interested in the provisional, the contingent, the accidental as well as the planned. I’m an accident-prone control freak. I want to reflect my studio practice in which I often spend hours looking for things I’ve misplaced only to find them useless when I find them. The trial-and-error process often means the work takes a couple of years to complete. There is an awful lot of dithering going on, both in my life and the world.” - Gerry Bergstein
Gerry Bergstein
Gerry Bergstein has been widely considered one of the most influential painters in this region since the 1980s. Still, Bergstein’s penchant for producing eruptions of unexpected imagery is undiminished. His work teems with cascading figures plucked from art history and his own life. It’s a centuries-spanning reunion of Bergstein’s very extended family of relatives, friends, and figures he’s borrowed from the work of Jean-Leon Gerome, Rene Magritte, Max Beckmann, Vija Celmins, John Currin, Matt Groening and many, many others.
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