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.
© 2017. All images copyright of respective artist
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.
© 2017. All images copyright of respective artist
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| 1979, Cubes |
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| 1979, Domestic Still Life Art and Entropy |
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| 1979, Measuring Cup with Necker Cube Spill |
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| 1979, Still Life with Necker Cube |
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| 1980, The Sculptor's Studio Touching and Retouching |
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| 1981, Wrenched Cup B |
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| 1982, Snap |
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| 1982, Table Study Clay |
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| 1982, Tragic Spill |
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| 1982, Work in Progress |
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| 1984, Banana |
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| 1984, Fruit Basket |
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| 1985, Kite |
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| 1985, Martini |
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| 1983, Falling Glass |
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| 1986, Factors of Two |
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| 1986, Letter Rack |
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| 1986, Rope and Chair |
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| 1987, Jar and Wire |
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| 1987, SVA Drawing Board, Front and Back, flipped diptych |
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| 1987, Web |
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| 1988, Axe Diptych |
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| 1987, Wire into a Jar |
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| 1988, Untitled (Tank #2) |
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| 1991, Inversion |
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| 1991, Slice |
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| 1992, Cancelled Branch |
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| 1992, Empties |
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| 1993, Cans Diptych |
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| 1993, Crushed Can & Scratchboard |
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| 1993, Empties |
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| 1993, Hubcap Diptych |
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| 1993, Tour triptych with Lightbulb and Steering Wheel |
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| 1994, Belts triptych |
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| 1994, Wheels Triptych |
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| 1995, Inside Outside diptych |
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| 1997, Pants Roll |
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| 1997, Shirt and Bottles |
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| 1997, Standing Stack |
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| 1998, Belts in Emulsion |
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| 2016, Frozen Times |
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| 2016, Red Water Level on Tilted Table |
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| 2017, After Fox Talbot #1 |
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| 2017, Four Wires Through |
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| 2017, Wednesday's ice cubes |
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| A White Tape |
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| Goat crap at MoMA |
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| Heart |
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| No name |
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