Artist Information:
Michael Berkowitz
New York, NY
United States
Member Since: Jan 2001
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Artist Statement:
Although for the past 30 years
I have been primarily a
painter and sculptor with work
in museums throughout the
country, over the past two
years I have added photography
to my creative endeavors. As
a photographer, I have been
concentrating on a series of
sepia-toned black and white
images. As well as being
inspired by French erotic
photographs of the 19th
century, and by the
“Storyville Portraits” of
E.J.Bellocq, the work has
also been informed by my
background in painting,
decorative arts, sculpture and
performance.
With this series of images, I
have allowed myself to be
concerned solely with beauty,
and the simple pleasure of
looking at it. I am not
interested in standardized,
polished notions of the
“perfect woman” but in the
beauty of real women. I
therefore prefer to work with
inexperienced or
non-professional models. Each
woman’s particularities and
“imperfections” are what I
find most interesting and
beautiful. I try to
photograph each model as if
through the eyes of a lover,
seeing each as if they were
the most beautiful woman in
the world.
The modernist aesthetic of
faceless human forms on a
blank background has always
left me cold. Never ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Awards
2001 Second place award, New
York Camera Club Annual
Competition
Group Exhibitions
2002 Texas Woman’s University,
Denton, TX, “Regarding Beauty”
2002 Camera Club of NY, Annual
Awards Exhibition, Juried by
Andres Serrano
2002 “Illuminance, 2002”,
Lubbock, Texas, Juried by Judy
Dater
2001 Eleven East Ashland
Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, “...
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Michael Berkowitz's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Michael Berkowitz's Portfolio. Browse Berkowitz's body of work: Although for the past 30 years I have been primarily a painter and sculptor with work in museums throughout the country, over the past two years I have added photography to my creative endeavors. As a photographer, I have been concentrating on a series of sepia-toned black and white images. As well as being inspired by French erotic photographs of the 19th century, and by the “Storyville Portraits” of E.J.Bellocq, the work has also been informed by my background in painting, decorative arts, sculpture and performance.
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