The essence of the painting is lost when it is discussed or defined.  Its true meaning is in the individual experience of the painting.

 

“Berg’s abstract paintings are confident and vigorous. The layered works, both large and small, employ extravagant mark-making; alternatively aggressive, hesitant, ugly and facile. There is a great deal of play when Berg paints, and an effort to connect to the unconscious; the Surrealist concept of ‘automatism’ is a precursor to this work.”
– Jill Hadley Hooper

 

“Simultaneously constricted and expanding, the gathering of gestures is emerging and unstable, assertive and elusive…”
– Stephanie Grilli