Artist Spotlight: Live Q+A with Michael Bergt | Figurative Art | Nüart Gallery

"I've always been fascinated with the figure beautifully rendered and by pattern and decoration. In my new work, I focus on these two interests: my figure studies are given a context within the designs found in erotic Japanese "Shunga" prints, Persian miniatures and the pattern traditions of Eastern Art: realism and pattern as well as Eastern and Western aesthetics." — Michael Bergt

Michael Bergt has been in deep dialogue with art history over the course of his more than forty-year career. Working across drawing, sculpture, and primarily egg tempera painting, Bergt has engaged art's long history of grappling with representational and abstract sensibilities. Inspired by early Renaissance classical mythology, and other diverse religious and spiritual imagery, his artwork represents his own play with expression and interpretation of the contemporary human condition. While grounded in these art historical and traditional painting techniques, Bergt also profoundly breaks from these as he creates his own cast of mythic characters with their own poetic inclinations and relationships informed by modern dialogues around pressing topics such as gender and sexuality.

Michael Bergt has shown his work nationally and internationally for over thirty years in numerous solo and group museum exhibitions and collections including: Fons D'Art del Diari Avui, Barcelona, Spain; Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, New York; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington; The Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; de Young Museum, San Francisco, California; California Palace of the Legion of Honor; San Francisco, California; Belvedere Place, Vienna, Austria; The Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, Evansville, Indiana; and Kalmazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Michael Bergt's paintings and sculptures have been featured in a multitude of publications, and have won numerous awards both domestically and abroad.

Michael Bergt co-founded the Society of Tempera painters and served as the president for twelve years. He also teaches egg tempera for the Rome Workshops during the summer. Bergt resides in Santa Fe, NM.

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