Michael Bergt has been in deep dialogue with art history over the course of his more than thirty-year career. Working across drawing, sculpture, and primarily egg tempera painting, Bergt has engaged art’s long history of grappling with representational and abstract sensibilities. Inspired by early Renaissance classical mythology, and other diverse religious and spiritual imagery, his artwork represents his own play with expression and interpretation of the contemporary human condition. While grounded in these art historical and visual traditions, Bergt also profoundly breaks from these as he creates his own cast of mythic characters. with their own poetic inclinations and relationships informed by modern dialogues around pressing topics such as gender and sexuality.

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New Pattern

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New Pattern, 2019
Gouache and colored pencil on toned paper
20 × 14 in

The Fall

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Gouache and colored pencil
18×13.5
2019

Persephone

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Gouache/Color Pencil on toned paper.
14 x 18.5 inches
2018.

Demoiselle

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gouache/color pencil on paper

Sebastian

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Venus

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gouache on paper
14.5 x 20.5

Delineate

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Borrow

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gouache/color pencil
18.5 x 14 inches

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