Berenice D'Vorzon

Artist:
Berenice D’Vorzon

This New York born artist has had over 25 solo shows. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums in the U.S. and abroad including The Whitney in New York and The Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. Her work can be found in numerous public and private collections including the Library of Congress.

“Most of my work deals with water images and the experience of being in nature” says Berenice D’Vorzon. “As in Asian art, the viewer is both inside and outside the painting at the same time. Environmental concerns are also part of the work, which is especially pertinent in these days of ecological crisis. Southern swamps, Long Island wetlands, Northern Ice, the River Li in China, coral reefs and jungles in the Caribbean…are some of my investigations.

In REVIEW Magazine, art critic Joe Vojtko wrote, “Although she goes at her work with all the laborious method of a trained scientist out in the field collecting data, sometimes I see D’Vorzon as a brewer of spells – a conjure woman – a swamp witch”. He goes on to describe her creative process as the translation into painted imagery of all that she has “absorbed, sensually, emotionally, cerebrally…with all the permutations, distortions and bizarre associations that sculpt the ghost and scar the empirical flesh of experience remembered.

Three years ago, she bought a computer. Having been a print maker (running a print shop and teaching print making), it felt natural for her to experiment with producing “COMPUTER ART”. It seemed an organic continuum of her work and continues to be so. Berenice’s computer art works can be found in the COMPUTER ART SECTION.
She prints on archival rag printmaking paper and the prints are as permanent as any watercolor.

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"Cave in the River"
from the "River Li" series
1993 - 39"x27" - $2800