Kermit Berg Studio

The American-born artist Kermit Berg, who lives in Berlin and San Francisco, created his first digital print in 1985 while taking classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2007 his work appeared in solo museum exhibitions in Berlin and New York. His next solo exhibition will be at Lyons Wier Gallery, New York in November 2009.

Twice nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, Berg’s work is internationally collected and represented by Lyons Wier Gallery in New York. Flatfile Galleries, owned by Susan Aurinko in Chicago, also represented Berg from 2002 until it closed in 2009.

The limited edition prints by Kermit Berg, depicted on this site were created by the artist from his source photography without appropriation.

The Technical Process: Kermit Berg’s print editions are archival in their quality. They are printed using industry-proven inks & pigments on acid-free handmade watercolor papers, and on archival fine art papers-all engineered for digital printing, The Artist also began editioning digital C-Prints in 2008.

His expertise, based in a 20 year involvement with digital artmaking,, insures conservation quality. All portfolios are rare and prints are numbered in small editions of 6 to 18.

The Aesthetic Process: Extracting content from his own extensive photographic archive, Berg applies a vigorous and consistent formalist aesthetic to works-on-paper, depicting a significantly altered built environment.

Using his sparsely populated facades, métro stations, passages and interiors, Kermit Berg creates exquisite urban atmospheres. His prints depict refined spaces somewhere between document and dream.

Berg juxtaposes the viewers’ resolute drive to identify a sense-of-place in photographic art, against our awareness that photography must no longer be trusted as a medium of documentary truth without corroborating evidence.

Denizens of global capitals, exhausted by visual pollution and distracted by digital devices, have long since stopped absorbing the urban subject matter in which Berg, with formal self assurance and a vague melancholy re-immerses himself and his audience.