COMPO/site: Horizon_Cabeza Prieta


Works on aluminum

  • COMPO / deCOMPO / SITES

    COMPO/site: one piece composed of multiple photographic frames

    deCOMPO/site: a single image framed in the camera and printed as a whole which is then dissected; may be mounted, as here, onto individual plates

    reCOMPO/site: a presentation of some or all of the dissected fragments of a deCOMPO/site in a spatial interrelation altered from the original
deCOMPO/SITE: Wall_San Rosario
Wall_San Rosario: reCOMPO/site
COMPO/site: Fractal_golfo
COMPO/site: Water tank_
COMPO/site: Clouds_Mimbres
Twisted dunes_Pinacate: reCOMPO/site
[partial view]
deCOMPO/site: Twisted dunes_Pinacate

How do we perceive a landscape? If there is a single question central to Berman's work, it is this.

Seeing is an active process. Berman works in and honors the fine tradition of black and white landscape, walking for miles with a view camera in the desert southwest to come to see and better know his subject. But, for Berman, the image as it is revealed by light and shadow and contained within the camera's frame is not definitive.

From his earliest exhibitions, the artist has experimented with the dissection, alteration, and obscuring of his photographic images. Whether the spatial interrelationship has been maintained or altered, the dissection, or reframing and recomposition, of the image causes a change in our perception. We are subtly challenged to reexamine and reenvision the landscape.

Acrylic, pigments, and photographs on aluminum plates, each 5.5"h x 5.25"w

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