Wednesday, October 2 @ 5:00 – 6:15pm
Elvehjem L160
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
John Berry’s paintings are abstract suggestions of landscape that explore tensions between individual freedom and collective responsibility. In recent years he has focused on the tradition and contemporary resilience of a particular kind of allotment garden originating in Leipzig, Germany known as a Schrebergärten. In addition to formal and compositional considerations of these highly regulated spaces, he is interested in the ways in which they propose alternatives to how we organize our images, identities, and communities.
Berry was born in Providence Rhode Island, received his BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from Indiana University. He has participated in residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Si Shang Museum in Beijing China, and Pilotenkueche in Leipzig Germany, and PADA in Barreiro Portugal. Berry has been awarded an Efroymson Family Fund Grant, the Louise Mcnutt Fellowship Grant, and a Della Fricke Teaching Award. His work has been published in New American Paintings and exhibited throughout the United States in venues such as Eskenazi School of Art, Indiana, Zarrow Gallery, Oklahoma, and internationally in venues such as Philipp Anders Galerie and Si Shang Museum. Berry has taught Foundations at Rhode Island School of Design and currently teaches at DePauw University as an Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing and chair of the Department of Art and Art History. johngberry.com