Niki Berg @ artavita

Niki Berg

I have been exhibited both nationally and internationally. My work has been published in books, catalogues and monographs including “In Their Mothers’ Eyes”, “Sacred Connections, Stories of Adoption”, A Gate Unfastened, Mothers and Daughters.
Periodicals such as Mamm, MS, Smithsonian Magazine and New York Times Review featured my work.

I am a recipient of an Artist Fellowship Award and the Catalogue Project Award from the New York Foundation for the Arts for “A Gate Unfastened”. I have received the Annenberg Medical Arts Award for “When Death Comes” and I have been a fellow at Yadoo and The MacDowell Artist Colonies. Most recently I was invited to participate in Art Cart, Saving the Legacy, an
intergenerational art project sponsored by Columbia University and NYU, culminating with an exhibition. This important program connects aging professional artists with teams of graduate students to undertake the preparation and documentation of their creative work, to preserve our cultural legacy.

Please visit www.nikiberg.com.

Portfolio:

Continuum

I was told that my first spoken word was flower.

I begin each day with curiosity as I visit the flowers in my studio. I notice the overnight changes and begin a quiet focused contemplation before and during photographing. The process is pure pleasure. They have made subtle shifts. Some still have vibrant vivid color, others retaining their sensuous curves and softness. Lyrical thoughts and feelings of strength and eros cross my mind. Still others are beginning to look frail, a thinning like tissue paper.

The flowers and I share an unspoken dialogue, one which brings me to a place of deeper knowing about time passing and the grace of transition.
This continuous movement of all things living and changing fills me once again with the wonder of life’s journey.

“Anemones 1”