About Karl Isberg

 

        The works mark the years.

        Hundreds of works, nearly forty-five years.

        Some label my paintings “abstract.” Others identify my work as “figurative.” Both are correct.

        My career has been consistently productive, the work diverse and, above all, non-doctrinaire.

        The aim has never been to satisfy current fashion, never to fall in step with what is salable, academically correct or critically prized at the moment. The work has been produced in conscious opposition to many of the dominant ideas and fashions of the time, though it has been exhibited in many venues and has elicited significant positive response. Much of the work has been produced in isolation – at a distance physically and intellectually from the cultural centers, from the modes of the day, from the people who inhabit the art world.

        What results is one series of work after another, each propelled by a central concept, each exploring the ramifications of that concept in a satisfying, full way. Styles and trends fall aside and are dismissed in favor of an effort that strives for unique results – results that suggest the next step, the next idea, the next series.

        At this site, you can view a few of the works from several of these series: paintings and drawings from various periods in an artistic life. The power of abstraction and a deep connection to the human figure are manifest in the paintings and drawings; a fascination with the process of re-presenting human visual, intellectual and emotional experience is a thread that runs through more than four decades of effort.

 

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go to Contact on the Home Page.

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