Frank Pictures Gallery Opens Paintings by Kelly Berg

Written by Kelly Berg In Santa Monica Saturday, 11 June 2011 22:04

Santa Monica, CA.- Frank Pictures Gallery is delighted to present 'Subterranean', the paintings of Kelly Berg from Saturday June 11th to July 25th in the Project Room. Influenced by her childhood explorations of nature in her native Minnesotan wilderness as well as it’s interaction with the human and technological world, Berg won a National Scholastic Art Portfolio Award in 2004. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2008. At The Rhode Island School of Design Kelly focused on figurative and landscape drawing and painting.

In 2007, Kelly apprenticed with world-renowned California mural artist John Pugh, who specializes in Trompe L’oeil techniques. She worked outdoors on his largest mural project ever completed which spanned 50 feet by 100 feet in Honolulu, Hawaii. Continuing her exploration of advanced painting techniques, Kelly received training in renaissance egg tempera painting and took a study trip abroad to Italy during her senior year. In 2008, Kelly had her first solo show of paintings, scratch boards, and ink drawings at the Hopkins Center for the Arts in Minnesota entitled, “Nature: An Uncommon View” which was a series of insect and human portraits set in various national park landscapes.

After graduation from RISD in 2008, Kelly traveled to Greece and Egypt gaining inspiration for her next series of work combining figures, landscape and abstraction. She moved to Los Angeles in February 2009 where her work was first shown at Cannibal Flower, a bimonthly pop-up gallery, in March 2009. She assisted artist Timothy Williams and helped with the installation of exhibitions at his Black Cat Gallery in Culver City. Two of the group shows at the Black Cat Gallery included her paintings. Kelly has continued to show her work in various group shows in Los Angeles and Orange County galleries. She was also the featured artist at Cannibal Flower’s nine-year anniversary show. Kelly’s work was most recently shown in “Beyond Eden” at Barnsdall Art Park, “Wreck the Walls” at Subliminal Projects, “Abstract Intentions” at Rothick Art Haus, and in Gallery 825’s annual GEM auction.


Frank Pictures Gallery is an independent gallery within Santa Monica, California's Bergamot Station arts complex. The gallery shows contemporary painting and sculpture as well as vintage and cutting edge photography. Founded by Laurie Frank and Floyd Byars, a screenwriting team best knows for "Making Mr. Right" (Orion Films 1987), it began in 1998 on Melrose Avenue as Still/Moving, a photographic gallery dedicated solely to the still photography of moving picture cinematographers and directors. In 2000, Frank split with Byars and moved the gallery, as the Media Rare Gallery, to a building on the second courtyard of then fashionable Hollywood watering hole, Les Deux Cafes, owned by Michele Lamy. The concept of the gallery expanded to include work by and for the whole Hollywood creative community. Media Rare moved again in 2002 to the top floor of Barneys New York, the department store in Beverly Hills. In 2003, Media Rare moved to current location in Santa Monica to form an association with Nancy Main of the Off Main gallery there, and further expanded conceptionally to encompass a more global slate of artists. These include: Gunnar Ahmer, Tom Benedek, Clifoton Bieundurry, Horace Bristol, Rhea Carmi, Cayetana Conrad, David Eddington, David Florimbi, Lynn Goldsmith, Joel Grey, Malone Mills, Maria Monroe, Ron Reihel, David Settino Scott, Robert Stivers, Andy Summers, Melly Trochez, and Peter Tunney. In 2004 Off Main moved to Ojai, California and Frank changed the name of the Bergamot gallery to Frank Pictures Gallery. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.frankpicturesgallery.com

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