Nora Berman — Oil Painting on Canvas
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Original painting by Los Angeles-based contemporary artist Nora Berman, whose practice spans painting, installation, ceramics, and performance. Berman’s work has been exhibited internationally and featured through galleries including Babst Gallery in Los Angeles, with exhibitions in Los Angeles, Paris, and Dublin
This piece exemplifies Berman’s psychologically charged visual language: biomorphic forms suspended within a dark, atmospheric field, balancing abstraction and figuration through fluid gesture, tension, and surreal spatial relationships. The work carries a strong emotional and physical presence while remaining open-ended and interpretive.
The saturated ultramarine ground contrasts with pale organic forms and looping linear elements, creating a composition that feels simultaneously intimate, dreamlike, and unstable. Qualities central to Berman’s evolving contemporary practice.
Berman’s painterly approach emphasizes mood over realism, allowing the work to feel cinematic, surreal, and psychologically open-ended.
Signed and dated by artist.
Dimensions: 11" W x 14" H
Condition: Excellent. Very minimal signs of age or handling. Acquired from private collection.
Nora Berman has exhibited and performed at institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen Kunsthaus Baselland Basel, Isabella Bortolozzi Berlin, High Art Paris, dépendance Brussels, Weiss Falk Basel, Stars Gallery Los Angeles, 2220 Arts & Archives Los Angeles.
