"Stranger in the Sun" Contemporary Original Abstract Acrylic Painting by Clara Berta

Description

Clara Berta’s acrylic and mixed-media paintings blend texture and color to create harmony, mystery, and depth on the painted surface. … more Clara Berta’s acrylic and mixed-media paintings blend texture and color to create harmony, mystery, and depth on the painted surface. Her paintings transform spaces into Zen environments where one can quiet a cluttered mind and enjoy beauty every day. Clara Berta’s paintings explore themes such as the ebb and flow of memory, the significance of personal heritage, the passing of physical time, desire, grief, and love.

This minimalist artwork is 24 inches square. The sides of this original artwork are painted white. It is stretched, wired, and ready to hang. It is signed and titled by the artist on the back. Convenient local Los Angeles area delivery. Affordable Continental U.S. and worldwide shipping available. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included.

Clara Berta explores the collision between the old and new; destruction and rebuilding lives. She began painting as an outlet of grief; creating something beautiful as the result of loss. Through her creative practice, she has found healing and further offers to her community safe spaces for troubled teens and women to heal through the meditative process of painting. Her artworks are a language, a push forward in new directions and achievements, while always inspired by history. Berta mixes minimalism with underlying texture and embraces modernism while compiling the odds and ends of her attempts to let her art speak for itself.

Her abstract works often include reminders of her travels expressed in unexpected sequences of patterns as well as distortion of perspectives and subconscious spaces. Manipulating the texture with several layers of texture paste and acrylic paint, she will work and re-work her canvases, layering textures to give added dimension, and creating works that intrigue and invite the viewer to explore not only the surface but also the inner language of the painting.

A passionate, award-winning artist of Hungarian heritage, Clara Berta's dynamic and highly textural abstract works have been exhibited and collected worldwide.


REPRESENTATION
Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA

EXHIBITIONS
2022 Solo show, Ethereal, Artspace Warehouse, CA
2022 Blue Like the Ocean, Artspace Warehouse, CA
2022 About Women: Celebrating Women Artists, MAC Fine Art, Delray Beach, FL
2022 Blue Configurations (Paper) Series, Ronewa Art Projects, Berlin, Germany
2021 20th International Art Exchange, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
2021 BLVDG Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2020 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Bistango Restaurant with Ethos Contemporary, Irvine, CA
2019 MAC Fine Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2018 Heath Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
2018 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Pictures at An Exhibition: LA Phil Gallery, CA
2018 Breaking Illusions, Claremont University, CA
2017 Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
2017 Made in California, City of Brea Gallery, Brea, CA
2017 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Made in California, Juried Exhibit, Brea Gallery, Brea
2016 Vision of LA Fest, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
2015 Michael Kate Interiors - Santa Barbara, CA
2015 JCC Gallery - Santa Barbara, CA
2011-2016 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, FL
2012 Gem, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Barnsdall Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Tell No One, The Wine Bistro, Studio City, CA
2009 Art: Raw/Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas, NV
2008 Stella Dottir Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 NoHo Gallery LA, North Hollywood, CA
2007 Riverside Museum, Riverside, CA
2006 Locanda Veneta, West Hollywood, CA
2006 Altobelli Gallery, North Hollywood, CA
2004 Erotic by Nature, LaPeer Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
2004 Lankershim Art Center, North Hollywood, CA
2003 Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2003 Studio 3 Art & Design, Westwood, CA
2000 Pick-A-Dilly Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA

AWARDS AND HONORS
2021 Gold Award & Award of Excellence, 20th International Art Exchange, Chiba City Museum of Art, Japan
2019 LA Artcore Juried Exhibition, Honorable Mention
2018 CFA Artist of the Year Finalist
2017 Third Place Prize “Made in California” Juried Exhibit, Brea Gallery
2016 ABC’s “The Catch”
2016 Art featured “Broken Links”, by Meir Sharony
2009 “You Again”, Disney film by Andy Fickman
2007 Artwork featured in Deepak Chopra’s DVD, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
2003 Art Expo Finalist, Fullerton, CA

EDUCATION
2014 Abstract Painting - Melinda Smith Altshuler, Santa Monica, CA
2008 Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy
2008 Mixed Media - Private Studies, Carol W. Slade, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Abstract Painting - Private Studies, Annie Wharton, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Mixed Media - Private Studies, Melinda Smith Altshuler, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Mixed Media, University of California, Los Angeles
2003 Monotype - Private Studies, Lynn Bernay, Valley Village, CA less