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Alison Berry has studied at Yale (BA cum laude 1980), The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, and Brooklyn College CUNY (MFA 1990).

She has exhibited work at galleries including The Painting Center (New York, NY), White Columns (New York, NY), The Soho Center for Visual Artists (New York, NY), The Marymount Manhattan College Gallery (New York, NY), Westbeth Gallery (New York, NY), Kendall Art and Design (Hudson, NY), The Erector Square Gallery (New Haven, CT), Works II Gallery (Southampton, NY), and the Fendrick Gallery (Washington, DC).

Berry currently lives and works in New York City. She has taught at Brooklyn College and the Maryland Institute of Art and Design.

Her work is in the public collection of Brook Partners , and many private collections.

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ARTIST'S STATEMENT

For me, images and symbols are endlessly fascinating artifacts of the human psyche. Whether culled from the archives of history, a scientific text, or the nightly visions of sleep, they whisper clues to the great riddle of who we are and where we come from.

Painting is my way of internalizing this vast puzzle of human culture, and recreating my own worlds. It inspires me to explore and to question the concepts which filter my perceptions and frame my sense of reality.

Inherently, the process of making a painting is a dance between mental and physical realms. The overlay of form and content speaks to the mystery of matter and consciousness. Color evokes the passion of life in all it's subtle complexity. Questions are probed through veils of pigment and networks of shape. Ultimately there are no answers, but simply the experience of wonder. That is what I hope to share.