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place. For example the paper pieces readily suggest somewhere underground like the New York subway system. You can almost hear its distinctive roaring clang and deep rumbling thunder emanating from this work.  The paintings express a more open city view that references the skeletal structures found in bridges and new or decrepit builds or even street graffiti.  But both types of work (but especially the works on paper) also hint at the psychological landscape of dreams. 

Untitled, oil on canvas

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If the city serves as the primary subject matter for Berger�s work, the content of her art is found in her response to what it means to live in New York  Emily Berger has a lot to say about that in her paintings and drawings. The whole gamut is covered here: the constant rhythms discerned from the sounds of the city. The crushing claus- trophobic density contrasted with an underlying sense of isolation and stark loneliness. But also, bits of irrepressible humor tossed in here and there like shards of colorful, albeit broken, glass. As with any great abstract painting, such impressions are not read directly from the work but rather are absorbed; and it is this experience which renders them all the more poignant.

Untitled, (detail)

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