Friday, December 22, 2017

Artist of the day, December 22: Zeke Berman, American photographer

Zeke Berman (1951) is an American photographer with background as a sculptor is evident in his painstakingly fabricated arrangements for the camera. Using string, wood, clay, water, paper, and glass, Berman creates complicated still lifes that resist clear-cut visual interpretation. By conflating the difference between what is seen by the eye and what is seen by the camera, Berman incites our imagination and challenges our perception.

Born in New York, Zeke Berman is a graduate New York’s High School of Music and Art and the Philadelphia College of Art (BFA in sculpture, 1972). Included in many major museum collections, Berman’s photographs have been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art; Friends of Photography, San Francisco; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and Museum of Modern Art, New York. Berman is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the McDowell Colony, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.


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1979, Cubes

1979, Domestic Still Life Art and Entropy

1979, Measuring Cup with Necker Cube Spill

1979, Still Life with Necker Cube

1980, The Sculptor's Studio Touching and Retouching

1981, Wrenched Cup B

1982, Snap

1982, Table Study Clay

1982, Tragic Spill

1982, Work in Progress

1984, Banana

1984, Fruit Basket

1985, Kite

1985, Martini

1983, Falling Glass

1986, Factors of Two

1986, Letter Rack

1986, Rope and Chair

1987, Jar and Wire

1987, SVA Drawing Board, Front and Back, flipped diptych

1987, Web

1988, Axe Diptych

1987, Wire into a Jar

1988, Untitled (Tank #2)

1991, Inversion

1991, Slice

1992, Cancelled Branch

1992, Empties

1993, Cans Diptych

1993, Crushed Can & Scratchboard

1993, Empties

1993, Hubcap Diptych

1993, Tour triptych with Lightbulb and Steering Wheel

1994, Belts triptych

1994, Wheels Triptych

1995, Inside Outside diptych

1997, Pants Roll

1997, Shirt and Bottles

1997, Standing Stack

1998, Belts in Emulsion

2016, Frozen Times

2016, Red Water Level on Tilted Table

2017, After Fox Talbot #1

2017, Four Wires Through

2017, Wednesday's ice cubes

A White Tape

Goat crap at MoMA

Heart

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